Fwd (from Conculture): Accepted Crimes

OK... since no one reacted to this in Conculture, then I must assume
there are no Koreans in that list. I'm therefore forwarding this message
here in CONLANG. Yooohooo! Koreans!!! ;)

Brad Coon wrote:

>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>ans...
>>
>> Something that has always bugged me about the Boreanesian
>> kinship/marriage system is its viability in a large population. The are
>> no precedents in the real world where moieties exist in a society with
>> quite a large population. I have this creepy feeling that there are bound
>> to be many Boreanesians that will commit incest as dictated by the
>
>Aacckkk, stepping in where my ignorance will show, I believe that
>Korea has this problem.  Something I vaguely recall from a newspaper
>article (and we all know  that newspapers are always correct) is that
>there are a limited number of clan (?) names in Korea and one is not
>allowed to marry within one's own.  Not sure where to tell you to
>look for more information but I seem to recall that either conculture
>or conlang has Korean members who can surely tell you more than I.
>
>--
>Brad Coon
>bcoon@imt.net