Note 91.1 — THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Rev. J. Roscoe, op. cit. p. 129. Among the women with whom man was forbidden to have sexual relations under pain of death were (besides his cousins mentioned above) his father’s sister, his daughter, and his wife’s sister’s daughter. See J. Roscoe, op. cit. pp. 131, 132. The reason alleged for avoiding a mother-in-law, namely, because a man has seen her daughter’s nakedness (compare above, p. 76) is probably a later misinterpretation of the custom.