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Childhood association, sexual attraction, and the incest taboo: a Chinese case
American antrhopologist • 68 • Published In 1966 • Pages: 883-898
By: Wolf, Arthur P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, based on data from a Chuanchou village, examines anthropological theories of the incest taboo. Of greatest interest to the author is the sim-pua form of marriage in which the prospective bride is adopted as a child into the home of the groom. This is not a popular form of marriage, though it is common. The author concludes that '...responses of these couples to marriage and sexual relations support the psychological view of the effects of intimate association on sexual attraction and thereby challange the basis of most sociological and biological explanations of the incest taboo'.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Sociocultural trends
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Hsiachichou (Ch'i-chou) in southwestern part of Taipei Hsien, Hai-shan region
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Wolf
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 898)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marriage--Taiwan