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KINSI-IIP ORGANIZATION IN NORTH AND EAST II9
meaning of " woman and a girl calls her brother maniik, which
can carry the generalized sense “man though it is usually
restricted to its kinship meaning. A characteristic common to
both the Malua and Ten Marou systems is the grouping together
of the grandparents according to sex and the single term used
for all grandchildren, the girls being distinguished from the boys
in Malua again by the sufï¬Åx d§vat, In both districts, too, a man
addresses his elder brother by the same term by which a girl
addresses her elder sister, and reciprocally ; further these same
terms are used contrasexually by a man to the wife of his elder
brother and by a woman to the younger brother of her husband.
For the husband's elder brother and the younger brother’s wife
(man speaking) and for afï¬Ånals of the same sex and generation
other distinct terms are used._ We ï¬Ånd also that the mother's
brother and father's sister’s husband are classed together, but
that in Malua. at least} the mother's brother's wife, far from
being called vnvwe, as is the father's sister, is spoken of as a
“ kind of mother " papa vlelekh. Reciprocally the wiie’s brother's
son is called by the same term as the sister’s son (man speaking).
In Malua, the wife's rnother’s brother's son is also included in
this category, the’ father’s sister's daughter’s husband being
classed with the maternal uncle and father’s sister's husband.
The most interesting of all the anomalous groupings of kindred
are those which concern the cross-cousins. Our fullest data on
this matter are supplied by the Malua list, but such evidence
as we have suggests that at Ten Marou also these same corre-
spondences are to be found. As in other parts of Malekula, the
cross-cousins on the father‘s side are classed with the father and
father's sister, and those on the mother’s side with the children.’
The Malua list shows, too, that this inclusion of paternal cross-
cousins in the generation ab0ve,‘and of maternal cross-cousins
in the generation below the speaker is carried further, for the
children of the father's sister's daughter are also addressed by
terms associating them with the father and father's sister, the
_C‘ go wm for the mother‘s brother's wife has been reported from Ten Marou.
g 5 11; at Ten Marou list we ï¬Ånd tztlalou given doubtfully for the Iather's
Sister's son, and no term recorded for the mother's brother's son_ Tatlalou is.
however, clearly a modiï¬Åcation of the word lain" (second singular imam) and the
same as iztlalv, which in Malua is used for father's sister's daughter's son,
tlg uae oi pomni and pamoi [mu for father and father's sister's son in Mewun.)