Group marriage

…At the same time, Morgan believed that kinship names were a direct reflection of past or present marriage patterns, and that societies that had evolved from the original promiscuous state, where intergenerational marriages were prohibited and brother-sister marriages were practiced, had Malay-type names. He also presented a hypothesis of linear evolution, stating that the Tranian-Ganowanian type corresponds to punaluan marriage (free marriage between the wife's sister and the husband's brother) and syndyasmian marriage (group marriage between multiple groups of brothers and sisters), and that the naming system would become Aryan-Semitic as the line of evolution progressed from polygamy to monogamous families. Morgan's evolutionary diagram was later subjected to severe criticism, but he is highly regarded for laying the foundation for the scientific study of kinship names. …

*Some of the terms that refer to "group marriage" are listed below.

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…同時にモーガンは，親族名称が過去または現在の婚姻様式の直接の反映だと考え，原初の乱婚の状態から，異世代婚が禁止され，兄弟姉妹同世代婚が行われた社会がマレー型名称を持つとした。さらにトラニア･ガノワニア型はプナルア婚punaluan marriage(妻の姉妹･夫の兄弟との自由婚)や対偶婚syndyasmian marriage(複数の兄弟姉妹集団間の集団婚group marriage)と対応し，一夫多妻婚を経て単婚家族にいたると名称体系もアーリア･セム型になるという一線的進化の仮説を提示した。モーガンの進化図式はその後厳しい批判にさらされることになったが，親族名称の科学的研究の基礎を築いたことは高く評価されている。…

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