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Social anthropology
the view that kinship systems are built on marriage exchanges that link groups, rather than on descent, with the incest prohibition forcing exchange between groups.In social anthropology, alliance theory refers to the view that kinship systems are built on marriage exchanges that link groups, rather than on descent, with the incest prohibition forcing exchange between groups. This meaning comes from Lévi-Strauss (1969) in The elementary structures of kinship.[1]