Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross-cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions

From: The Australian Journal of Anthropology | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Patterson, Mary | Copyright information

Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and 'cultural' explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the necessity of a close analysis of the specificit...

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