Luckily, I didn't venture into the merits of endogamus marriage--- I got into enough trouble with my discussion of patriarchy (full-fledged) as a slave relation in my Chapter 8, 'The One- Sidedness of Wage-Labour' in 'Beyond CAPITAL'. See, eg, the comments of Panitch/Gindin, Al Campbell and Colin Barker in Historical Materialism, 14.2 (2006). Of course, I was only quoting/ developing Marx (and using this as entry into stressing the non-identity of wage labourers) but, well, better to shoot the messenger.
If it weren't for what's happened recently in Virginia Tech, I'd say "Keep shooting straight, Michael." So, to put it in other terms, "Keep telling it as you see it.'' I found that part of Beyond to be a *Marxist* analysis of traditional familial relations at its best.
