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# Avoiding marriage, or the infelicity of alliance #

## Avoiding marriage, or the infelicity of alliance ##

Ryan Schram 

Paper presented to the University of Sydney anthropology department seminar

20 October 2016

Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/talks/avoiding

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### Key words ###

* **buʻuna** //relative, co-totemic or otherwise the 'same' (see __taliya__)//
* **susu** //matrilineal descent group, or segment thereof//
* **boda** //group (pl. bodao)//
* **mumuga** //1. founding ancestress; 2. stranger, nonrelative (pl. mumugao)//
* **taliya** //same, alike//
* **ehebo** //one (numeral), unitary//
* **natu** //child//
* **tama** //father//
* **natuleiya** //children of male susu mates//
* **tama-o** //fathers, i.e. the father's susu, e.g. tamaguwao (my fathers)//
* **naibole** //incest, illegitimate marriage//

### Key phrases ###

* **"Owa ma mwanem magai ehebo"** //You and your spouse have one grave//
* **"Seʻulu uʻitaʻavivini"** //Look after your school//