The Incest Taboo and the Mating Patterns of Animals

Quasi-Incestuous Paliyan Marriage in Comparative Perspective

“…They were not all held in the same regard. Notably, no one expressed great confidence in six of the 12 theories (generally labeled Socialization, Demographic, Instinct, Sociobiology, Neurology, and Primatology) and a single review took interest in each of four others (Family Harmony [4], Group Alliance [4], Psychoanalytic [6], and Synthetic [9]). It is only the two remaining theories that have been deemed particularly worthy of merit, especially in the most recent reviews.…”

“…It is only the two remaining theories that have been deemed particularly worthy of merit, especially in the most recent reviews. These are L. H. Morgan's [34] Inbreeding Avoidance theory [4,5,[7][8][9] and E. Westermark's [35] Aversion theory [5][6][7][8][9]. And two reviewers stand out for the depth of their work, Durham and Wolf.…”

“…These are: (a) a culture in which it was very common for a boy's family to adopt a baby girl with the intention of raising her to be the boy's marriage partner; (b) five cultures in which a person could enter into polygamous marriage with a parent and child and, in one of the five, it was also possible to adopt and bring up a girl, then marry her; and (c) three cultures in which certain individuals were permitted occasional or regular sexual contact between parent-and childin-law, and, in two of those cultures, between brother-and sister-in-law. Because, in many of the cultures, unions are with persons previously called parent, child, parent's child, spouse's child, child's spouse, and so on, recent perspectives on incest will be brought into the final discussion [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Finally, all ten cultures will be examined to ascertain underlying factors that might permit their quasi-incestuous arrangements.…”

Biosocial theories of the incest taboos

“…(Aberle et al 1963) који су понудили једну врсту породичне теорије инцест табуа. Уважавајући генетске студије о штетности инбридинга аутори су истицали адаптивну вредност инцест табуа.…”

The biological foundations of the incest taboo

“…And if, finally, as L6vi-Strauss (1970, p. Fischer, 1965;Lorenz, 1965) and by ethologically-oriented psychoanalysts (Bowlby, 1969). But human psychological research has also reached this conclusion, chiefly in connection with the motivational content analysis of projective techniques (&dquo;need for affiliation&dquo;, see Atkinson, 1958 (Kortmulder, 1968;Aberle et al, 1963 (Reynolds, 1952), in a series of rodents, e.g. the hamster (Eisenberg, 1966) and the squirrel (Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1951), further possibly in the red fox (Tembrock, 1967), reportedly also in the tiger (Schaller, 1967;but cf Ewer, 1968, p. 68 sq.)…”