Exchange marriage

Exchange marriage is a form of marriage involving an arranged and reciprocal exchange of spouses between two groups.[1] In this tradition, a pair consisting of brother and sister are married from one family to another pair of another family.[1] When the process is repeated for generations then it is called cousin marriage.[1]

It is common among the some Australian Aborigines and American Subarctic peoples.[1]

In Pakistan, it is called watta satta, and about a third of all marriages in rural Pakistan are on this basis.[2]

References
  1. "Exchange marriage | sociology". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. "Marriage by exchange". The New Humanitarian. March 8, 2007.
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