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The Influence of Religious Affiliation on Surname Repetition in Marriages in Tiszaszalka, Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

T. Koertvelyessy
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University, Athens, USA
M. H. Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
M. Pap
Affiliation:
Tanitokepzo Foiskola, Debrecen, Hungary
K. Szilagyi
Affiliation:
Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary

Summary

The repeated-pairs of surnames in marriages (RP) approach is applied to the population of Tiszaszalka in north-eastern Hungary. The results indicate that: (1) lineage-like behaviour in mate choice results in population subdivision in both the Catholics and the Protestants of the village; (2) unlike in some other Tiszahat villages, the isonymous and the repeating unions in Tiszaszalka occur in different lineages so, in neither of these subpopulations are isonymous and repeating unions monopolised by a few lineages; (3) religious affilitation influences the mating structure of the population as measured by RP summary scores.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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