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Abstract
This chapter discusses the Kpelle negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties. Kinship and marriage norms have a negotiated character that is shaped by their strategic use in different sociopolitical contexts. Kpelle kinship and marriage norms are analyzed as a cognitive code for construing sociopolitical relations than as jural imperatives that determine or reflect these relations. A kin relationship or a marriage transaction receives the assignation of a particular label not because of the congruence of cultural categories with objective genealogical or behavioral features but because the actors involved manage to invest it with such meaning. The key meanings in the Kpelle marriage code derive from the political idiom of the kêra-mâleŋ) relationship. The management of this idiom is bound up with definitions of affinal links and cross-cousin marriages of the past that bear on rights in land, political positions, and the labor of others in the present.
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