From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   reader wrote:   
      
   > Often the same kinship pattern controls the economic ownership of resources   
   > etc., first cousin marriage keeps this in the line of the mother/father   
   > because all first cousins are within that kinship line..   
      
   It had more to do with status.   
      
   You'd never want to marry beneath you, and people of higher social   
   status felt the same way, so you marry each other.   
      
   Occasionally someone would win their way into a higher social   
   standing -- financial success, military power (etc) -- but for the   
   most part you married within your own, and the higher up you   
   went the more inbred you became.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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