The changing interpretation of various Malagasy kinship systems is discussed in relation to the validity of the distinction between agnatic and cognatic in principle and practice, to the geographically and culturally intercalary position of Madagascar between Africa, Indonesia and the Middle East, and to the relation between variations in kinship ideologies and groupings on the one hand and ecological pressures on the other.
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