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Copyright 1965, 1994 Paul Stirling. All rights reserved.

Paul Stirling
CHAPTER NINE

MARRIAGE

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omissions are inevitable, and I did not always ask if they were still alive, - hence the words `presumed living' and `presumed dead' in Table 10the totals, it appears that Sakaltutan had a net export of women, and Elbashï a net import, but this interesting conclusion is doubtful.

In the two diagrams (Figs. 10 and 11) based on these tables, each line represents one village. They show how marriages linking villages decline in number with distance, and virtually cease above five to six hours away.

Figure 10

On Fig. I0, it appears thatin Sakaltutan in the past, only half the marriages were within the village, whereas now the figure is two-thirds. Possibly the rising population offers a greater choice of brides within the village. In Elbashï on the other hand, a larger village in the first place, the proportion has remained more or less constant at just over half.

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