Avoid

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Son-in-law and mother-in-law, and father-in-law and daughter-in-law, practise mutual avoidance and if they touch each other must pay damages ‘to wash away the fault’.

• Source: Gluckman, Max. “Kinship and marriage among the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia and the Zulu of Natal” in African systems of kinship and marriage, edited by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde, pp. 166-206. London, England: Oxford University Press, published for the International African Institute, 1950.
• Culture: Lozi
• Location: Africa