Filiation and alliance in three Bororo myths; a reconsideration of the social code in the first chapters of The raw and the cooked

In the next Mundurucu myth the wives have intercourse with an animal and are transformed into fish. [...]women who do not live in accordance with cultural rules are transformed into food. The fathers attempt to kill their sons or their companions and the sons hand over the cultural goods (and their chieftainships in M2) to their fathers. Since this mythical past cultural goods and offices have been transmitted matrilineally from mother's brother to sister's son. [...]both heroes leave human society forever. The adoptive father, who 118 J. G. Oosten may not be genealogically related to the boy, takes care of his education in the men's house (cf. [...]the relation between adoptive father and son in Kayapo society is a cultural one, but is given a natural foundation in the kinship system by the institution of adoption.