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Consanguinity in context /
An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 63; Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Consanguineous marriage, past and present; Introduction; Early urban development and social stratification; Human mating as a genetic continuum; Basic measurements of consanguinity in human populations; Western attitudes to consanguineous marriage; Marriage in geographical, social and religious isolates; Anecdotal tales of close kin unions
- licit and illicit; Consanguineous marriage among European royalty and other dynasties.
- The Spanish HabsburgsThe Rothschild banking family; The Lubavicher Hasidim; Commentary; 2 Religious attitudes and rulings on consanguineous marriage; Introduction; Consanguinity and religion; Judaism; Christianity; Legislation on consanguineous marriage within the early Christian Church; Regulation of consanguinity in the Latin Church; The attitudes of Post-Reformation Protestant denominations to consanguineous marriage; The Anglican schism; Islam; Hinduism; Sikhism; Buddhism; Confucian/Taoist tradition; Zoroastrian/Parsi; Commentary; 3 Civil legislation on consanguineous and affinal marriage.
- IntroductionThe law in Great Britain on consanguinity and affinity; Countries with civil legislation restricting consanguineous marriage; United States of America; Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan; The Republic of Korea and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea; The Philippines; Consanguineous marriage and international law; Commentary; 4 Consanguinity: the scientific and medical debates of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Introduction; Early medical studies on consanguinity in the USA; Dr Samuel Bemiss and the health outcomes of consanguinity.
- Lewis Henry Morgan and the classification of biological relationshipsAlexander Graham Bell, consanguinity and the education of the deaf; George Arner and consanguineous marriage in the USA; Early consanguinity studies in Great Britain and Ireland; Sir William Wilde, cousin marriage and deaf-mutism; Dr Arthur Mitchell and cousin marriage in Scots fishing villages; Charles Darwin, cousin marriage and family concerns; George Darwin and isonymy; Cousin marriage in decline; Eugenics and the consanguinity debate; Consanguinity and the application of biometric analysis.
- Sir Francis Galton, consanguinity and paradoxical factsEugenics and purging of the gene pool; Commentary; 5 Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of consanguineous marriage; Introduction; The global prevalence of consanguineous marriage; Western societies; Japan; South Asia; South India; Pakistan; The Middle East; Societal and regional preferences in types of consanguineous marriage; Demographic, social and economic correlates of consanguinity; Consanguinity, education and socioeconomic status; Consanguinity, age at marriage and reproductive span.