Boreanesian Spousal Names in Detail (was: Spousal names)

Adam Walker wrote:
> Personally, I would like to see them become John Smith-Jones and Jane
> Jones-Smith with the daughters inheriting the Mother's family name and the
> son's the father's.

Something like this exists for the Boreanesians. Like I just said in
another post, Boreanesians have both matri- and patrimoieties. They
also have a dual descent system. This means that children inherit
affiliations from both of their parents. More specifically, a child
inherits the patrimoietal affiliation of his/her father and the
matrimoietal affiliation of his/her mother. The main difference is
that moieties are not used as surnames. Instead, each combination of
moietal affiliation has a certain name called a marriage section, and
it is this marriage section name that is used in modern Boreanesia as
a "surname". Furthermore, because the combination of moietal affilation
is never the same as the parents' combination, Boreanesian children
never inherit the marriage section name of the parents.

I know that the Boreanesian system is quite a mouthful to swallow
for someone who is unfamiliar to moieties and marriage sections. But I
really want to share this, so I have tried to provide an outline of the
Boreanesian system below. For simplicity, the moiety and section names
are given as letters.

There are the following moieties:
   P1 = patrimoiety 1     M1 = matrimoiety 1
   P2 = patrimoiety 2     M2 = matrimoiety 2

There are the following marriage sections:
   Section A              Section B
   Section C              Section D

Each marriage section consists of the following combination
of moietal affiliations:
   Section A = P1M1       Section B = P1M2
   Section C = P2M1       Section D = P2M2

Each moiety is exogamous (meaning they are only allowed to marry
someone from another moiety). This means that marriage sections are
paired in terms of marriage compatability:

   Section A must and can only marry Section D
   Section B must and can only marry Section C

Being dual descent, a child inherits the moietal affiliations of
both parents. The child inherits the patrimoietal affiliations of
the father and the matrimoietal affiliations of the mother. This
means that children will never have the same combination of moietal
affiliations as the parents. In other words, children will always
belong to another marriage section than either parent. The following
table summerizes the marriage sections that family members would
have in each of the four possible marriage combinations:

        FATHER      MOTHER      CHILDREN
   1.   Section A   Section D   Section B
   2.   Section D   Section A   Section C
   3.   Section B   Section C   Section A
   4.   Section C   Section B   Section D

In the above table, the first family consists of a marriage between
a section A man and a section D woman, and their children would
immediately belong to section B. The reason for this should be obvious
by now (I hope). The section A man with the moietal affiliations of
P1M1, passes his patrimoietal affiliation of P1 to the children.
Similarly, the section B woman with moietal affilations of P2M2 passes
her matrimoietal affiliation of M2 to the children. The children would
therefore have the moietal affiliations of P1M2, which is equivalent
to marriage section B. The same logic applies to all the other three
families.

-kristian- 8)