Marriage Law
The complex rules governing who can marry whom.
Marriage rules are determined by kinship, ensuring genetic diversity and maintaining social order. Wrong-way marriages are serious violations of Law, with consequences for the couple and their families.
You cannot marry just anyone you love. The Law tells you who is right for you.
Marriage laws ensured genetic diversity across the continent.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What Aboriginal tradition says about conflict with people close to you
The cost of that system is stated without apology: you cannot marry simply whoever you love, and a wrong-way marriage is a serious breach with consequences for the couple and both families. This is the tradition at its least accommodating to individual desire.