Abuse & Violence, Family Abuse & Violence, Genetics - General and Miscellaneous, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
The interrelationships between the dangers of inbreeding, the general avoidance of incest because of the sexually inhibiting effect of early childhood association (the "Westermarck effect"), and the genesis of the incest taboo remain nearly as hotly contested as they were a century ago. Wolf and Durham (both professors of human biology at Stanford U.) present 10 papers from a February 2000 Stanford U. conference which brought together scholars from genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry, in order to address such questions as the possible evolutionary basis of the "Westermarck effect," the relationship between individual inclinations and the social regulation of the taboo, and the reasons for different local manifestations of the universal incest taboo. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
November 8, 2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780804751414