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Structural endogamy is anetwork concept that provides a means of finding the boundaries ofendogamy in a community, using simply the genealogical and marriage linkages. The concept is related to that ofstructural cohesion. The examples are made with free toolPajek. Another name for structural endogamy is(marital) relinking, which comes out of Frenchsocial anthropology, and the study of how communities are formed through couples marrying who are already linked: linked, that is, by chains of kinship and marriage, as in circles of intermarrying families, or marriages between people with one or more ancestors in common (i.e.,blood relatives, such as cousins). Many of the marriages represented in the Turkish nomads figure are with cousins, for example. But relinking also occurs without blood marriages, as in the example from the Mexican village of Belén Atzitzi-mititlán withinApetatitlán de Antonio Carvajal.
