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

• 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

• “Owa ma mwanem magai ehebo” You and your spouse have one grave
• “Seʻulu uʻitaʻavivini” Look after your school