Social:Exchange marriage

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Exchange marriage is a form of marriage involving an arranged and reciprocal exchange of spouses between two groups.[1] In this tradition, a pair consisting of brother and sister are married from one family to another pair of another family.[1] When the process is repeated for generations then it is called cousin marriage.[1] It is common among the some Australian Aborigines and American Subarctic peoples.[1]

In Pakistan , it is called watta satta, and about a third of all marriages in rural Pakistan are on this basis.[2]

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