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Incest avoidance and the incest taboos : two aspects of human nature /
Why do most people never have sex with close relatives? And why do they disapprove of other people doing so? Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos investigates our human inclination to avoid incest and the powerful taboo against incest found in all societies. Both subjects stir strong feelings and vigo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why do most people never have sex with close relatives? And why do they disapprove of other people doing so? Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos investigates our human inclination to avoid incest and the powerful taboo against incest found in all societies. Both subjects stir strong feelings and vigorous arguments within and beyond academic circles. With great clarity, Wolf lays out the modern assumptions about both, concluding that all previous approaches lack precision and balance on insecure evidence. Researchers he calls ""constitutionalists"" explain human incest avoidance by. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780804791694 0804791694 |