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124 MALEKULA
The Kinship Terms of Uripiv
Tm suk: F. ; F.B. ; F.Sis.S.; F.Sis.H.
Tasu suk: M. ; M.Sis. ; F.Sis. ; F.Sis.D. ; M.B.W.
Natuk: Ch. ; Sis.Ch. (w.s.) ; B.Ch. (m.s.) ; B.Ch. (w.s.) ;
M.B.Ch.; W.B.Ch.; H.Sis.Ch.
Tuak: eB. (ms) ; eB. (w.s.) ; I-LB. (also called nevsevili).
Tasik: yB. (ms) ; yB. (w.s.).
Tsotsik: ySis. (ms) ; eSis. (m.s.).
Mituk: M.B.
Metelu suk: Sis.Ch. (m.s.).
Bamlm I Grandparent, irrespective of sex or line of ascent.
M embuk : Grandchild, irrespective of sex or line of descent.
Pilek : W.F.1; W.M. ; H.F.; H.M.; I-I.Sis. (also called wevseuili).
Div:/en: D.H.; Sis.H. (rn.s.); Sis.I-I. (w.s.) ; H. (div/en suk).
Nevseuili: S.W.; H.B. (also called mak); H.Sis. (also called
pilek).
Neseuen suk: W.
Tau/wk: W.B.; W.Sis.
This Uripiv list of kinship terms presents several interesting
features. Most remarkable perhaps is the practice of a girl
addressing her elder and younger brothers by the terms which
these men use for each other, while reciprocally these men call
all their sisters, irrespective of age, by the one word tsotsiki.
Another unusual grouping is that whereby the father and father’s
sister's husband are both called tata su/z without any qualiï¬Åcation,
and the mother, father’s sister, and mother's brother's wife are
all three spoken of as tasu suk, the word natuk (child) being
used reciprocally by all these people. The characteristic of all
Malekulan kinship systems, the classing of paternal cross-cousins
with the father and father’s sister and the maternal cross-cousins
with the children, is found also in this island.
THE INTERIOR
Scarcely anything at all is knovsm of the inland districts south
of Lagalag and north of the cultural boundary which runs from
South-West Bay to Port Sandwich. For lack of evidence to the
contrary it is probably safe to assume that the clan organization
of these districts is the same as on the coast, and from Nesan and
1 There is some doubt as to the terms used between a woman and her husband ‘s
iatlier. The informant gave M1/scmli ior me latter relative, but there is every
reason for believing that this was incorrect, and it is more likely that pilak IS
used for all parontsein-law as is done in the Small Islands to the north.
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