Prohibitive. A proscriptive marriage system is one that specifies whom Ego may not marry, leaving broad choice of others.
Comment:All societies have incest prohibitions, so in that sense all societies have proscriptive marriage systems, and the term is rarely particularly useful compared with its opposite, prescriptive.
Definition Revised: 2004-09-15
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