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| any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family. |
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| a legally, religiously, or socially sanctioned union of persons who commit to one another, forming a familial and economic bond: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every society, past and present. |
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| any cultural rule or norm that prohibits acts of sexual relations between relatives |
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| marriage within a specific tribe or similar social unit. |
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| marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit. |
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| a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by a third party rather than by each other. |
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| interbreeding of individuals with like characteristics. |
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| the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. |
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| the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively. |
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| a custom whereby a man enters into marital relations with several women who are sisters or cousins. |
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| the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. |
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| marriage with only one person at a time. |
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| a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime. |
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| the crime of marrying while one has a spouse still living, from whom no valid divorce has been effected. |
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| the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. |
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| subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister. |
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