Kinship relations and marriage rituals among the Aounab tribe in Egypt and Sudan Sudan (Dongola) - Egypt (Aswan - Jurf Hussein)

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Researcher at Aswan University, Institute of African Studies and Nile Basin Countries

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The kinship life and kinship pattern and marriage rituals in a society such as the Aounab community in southern Egypt and Dongola in Sudan this traditional society, which is based on internal marriage infringement, which is based on the nervousness on which the tribal political construction is based, most parents prefer internal marriage and welcome it for several reasons, including economic related to the desire to preserve wealth, and basic reasons related to social and political cohesion vis-à-vis kinship groups and other tribe, and prefer to marry first-degree cousins Polygamy is a social system. It has developed a set of questions that determine how the kinship system of the study community, or in other words, what is the appropriate entrance to understand the nature or concept of kinship, and the role or function of the kinship system in society and the extent of its reflection and impact on other formats such as the political and economic system, and is the role or function of kinship still exercised with the same force in this society, or is there a change and what is the reason? Due to the multiplicity of opinions on this subject, this reflects the extent to which anthropologists are interested in studying the kinship function of primitive societies.

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