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Childhood association and sexual attraction: a further test of the Westermarck hypothesis
American anthropologist • 72 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 503-515
By: Wolf, Arthur P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is another source presenting further evidence of the validity of the psychological theory of the incest taboo. The author presents statistical evidence comparing the major and minor forms of marriage regarding divorce, adultery, and the average number of children. The data show that women who marry a childhood associate bear fewer children, divorce more frequently, and are more often adulterous than those who marry strangers.
- 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
- Termination of marriage
- Ethnosociology
- Extramarital sex relations
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1958-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sanhsia Chen in southwestern Taipei Hsien
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Wolf
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 515)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marriage--Taiwan