Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo

The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues.That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud's view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives—a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association.This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804751414

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Arthur P. Wolf is David and Lucile Packard Foundation Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. William H. Durham is Bing Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University.

Innehållsförteckning

@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figuresiii @toc2:Introduction000 @tocca:Arthur P. Wolf @toc2:1Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos000 @tocca:Patrick Bateson @toc2:2Genetic Aspects of Inbreeding and Incest000 @tocca:Alan H. Bittles @toc2:3Inbreeding Avoidance in Primates000 @tocca:Anne Pusey @toc2:4Explaining the Westermarck Effect, or, What Did Natural Selection Select For?000 @tocca:Arthur P. Wolf @toc2:5Ancient Egyptian Sibling Marriage and the Westermack Effect000 @tocca:Walter Scheidel @toc2:6From Genes to Incest Taboos: The Crucial Step @tocca:Neven Sesardic000 @toc2:7Assessing the Gaps in Westermarck's Theory000 @tocca:William H. Durham @toc2:8Refining the Incest Taboo: With Considerable Help from Bronislaw Malinowski000 @tocca:Hill Gates @toc2:9Evolutionary Thought and Current Clinical Understanding of Incest000 @tocca:Mark T. Erickson @toc2:10The Incest Taboo as Darwinian Natural Right000 @tocca:Larry Arnhart @toc4:Index000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Incest, Consanguinity, Inbreeding, Taboo