KINSHIP BEHAVIOR

    George P. Murdock. 1965. Ethnographic Atlas (14). Ethnology 4: 241-250.
    
    Reprinted with permission of editors of the journal Ethnology.
           
      STDS62.DAT Variables 1226 - 1237
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    These data were taken by Murdock from kinship terminology and 
    behavior code sheets some of which were coded by Yale graduate 
    students, thus the occasional reference to coders other than Murdock.

1226.  Kin Behavior: Sister and Brother
1227.  Kin Behavior: Wife's Mother and Daughter's Husband
1228.  Kin Behavior: Son's Wife and Husband's Father
1229.  Kin Behavior: Mother's Brother's Wife and Husband's Sister's Son
1230.  Kin Behavior: Wife's Brother's Daughter and Father's Sister's Husband
1231.  Kin Behavior: Mother's Brother's Daughter and Father's Sister's Son
1232.  Kin Behavior: Father's Sister's Daughter and Mother's Brother's Son
1233.  Kin Behavior: Elder Brother's Wife and Husband's Younger Brother
1234.  Kin Behavior: Younger Brother's Wife and Husband's Elder Brother
1235.  Kin Behavior: Wife's Elder Sister and Younger Sister's Husband
1236.  Kin Behavior: Wife's Younger Sister and Elder Sister's Husband
1237.  Kin Behavior: Wife's Brother's Wife and Husband's Sister's Husband

       . = Missing data
       1 = A)voidance - cultural restraints on interaction which
       *   prevent physical contact between the relatives in
       *   question.  Apparently always associated with a taboo 
       *   on sex relations
       2 = R)espect - cultural restraints on interaction which
       *   do not entirely prevent physical contact but which
       *   inject a definite element of formality into the 
       *   relationship. Like avoidance, respect seems regularly
       *   to imply a sex taboo, with only one observed exception
       *   (the Tikopia).
       3 = I)nformality - absence of both avoidance and respect
       *   restraints and of prescribed joking. Nearly always 
       *   associated with the prohibition of sex relations.
       *   The few exceptions are classified as S rather than I
       *   on the presumption that the coder confused intimacy 
       *   with informality 
       4 = F)orbidden sex relations but no data on behavior 
       5 = J)oking - prescribed or obligatory, either "mild" or 
       *   "heavy," in the absence of any specific indication of
       *   privileged sex relationships (some of the cases of 
       *   "heavy" joking may be S with no data on sexuality)
       6 = S)ex privileged relationship - sex relations prior to 
       *   or outside of marriage are either fully or conditionally
       *   approved, i.e., do not incur the customary social 
       *   sanctions for the violation of sexual prohibitions;
       *   almost always associated with joking, expecially "heavy"
       *   joking

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