'Come with me, my little cousin'. Marriage between first cousins among the gypsies of Andalusia

This study undertakes the following: 1) to establish the frequency of marriage between first cousins and its evolution during the 20th century within a broad gypsy population studied by a combination of demographic and anthropological methods; 2) to analyse a central element of this type of matrimony, the linear or lateral differentiation among first cousins conceived as spouses; 3) to establish how the data are put together in the demographic and genealogical reconstruction with the dominant concepts concerning relations and relatives in this gypsy population; 4) to evaluate, finally, whether the results found are compatible with the patrilinear view of the gypsy society and with the importance of alliances among patrigroups or patrilineages as a core element of their marriages, both explanations being dominant in most of the main monographs on Spanish gypsies.