Incest avoidance and the incest taboos : two aspects of human nature
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- ISBN: 9780804791694 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0804791694 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780804789677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0804789673 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (188 pages) - Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
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General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. Multi-User. AC-SUB CatMonthString:march.15 "Stanford Briefs"--Cover. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Two questions; 2. The Trobriand Islands; 3. Matters of meaning; 4. Universality affirmed; 5. The dangers of inbreeding; 6. A tempting solution; 7. Group harmony theory; 8. Group alliance theory; 9. The !Kung on cognition; 10. Incest and intuition; 11. From nature to culture; 12. Marx is missing; 13. The Westermarck hypothesis; 14. Frazer and Freud; 15. Three natural experiments; 16. Darwin's method; 17. Seven predictions; 18. The evidence from the Islamic World; 19. The evidence from Israel; 20. The evidence from Taiwan; 21. Six objections; 22. A seventh objection |
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Subject: | Incest Incest Taboo SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions Taboo Incest victims |
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