Show I I I Marriage of Nearest Kin Tabooed by All Alt Peoples Marriage of ones one's nearest kin seems to be one taboo that Is believed In Inand inand inand and enforced by all aU mankind from the most civilized t to the most prim prim- So concludes Rev John M. M Cooper professor of anthropology at atthe atthe atthe the Catholic University of at America Americ in a survey of at marriage customs reported reported re re- ported in the scientific journal Primitive Primitive Primitive Prim Prim- Man There is no race on earth he says that does docs not regard brother and sister or marriage of parent with child with aversion and prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit such unions und under r pain of the severest penal penalties penalties freqUently frequently death itself A very few royal families notably those of ancient Egypt anc and Peru did practice such close inbreeding inbreeding inbreeding inbreed inbreed- ing but this was done only to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve the royal blood free from the slightest outside contamination anc and was not the custom even in aristocratic aristocratic aristo aristo- cratic circles among the peoples the Pharaohs and Incas ruled Marriage of cousins and of at relatives relatives- law in Father Cooper states is not subject to anything like the same uni uniformity of prohibition Some primitive peoples permit such and even encourage them to the pom point of making them obligatory while others often near n neighbors regard marriage cousin with the same nor hor 2 a as sister brother unions |