Incest: A Biosocial View

Incest: A Biosocial View

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Incest: A Biosocial View

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Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Biosocial View
Epigenetic Rules
The Importance of Reproduction
Inclusive Fitness and Kin Selection
Kinship Altruism (Nepotism): The Nucleus of Human Sociality
Reciprocal Altruism
Mate Selection and Parental Investment
Parent-Child and Sibling Conflict
Aggression and Social Order
Summary: The Biosocial View of Culture
3 Incest: Concepts, Definitions, and Issues
Definitions
Regulations of Incestuous Intercourse
The Use of Animal Data
Origins
Persistence
Functions
4 Edward Westermarck
5 The Kibbutz and the Sim-Pua: Fooling Mother Nature
The Kibbutz: Collective Education
The Sim-Pua Marriage
Summary
6 Contributions to the Development of the Sociobiological Theory of Incest
Miriam Kreiselman Slater: The Demographic Explanation
Robin Fox
Aberle et al.: A System and Methodological Breakthrough
Gardner Lindzey
N. Bischof
Melvin Ember
Jeffrey T. Burnham
Parker and Others
Summary
7 The Sociobiological Theory of Incest
The Balance of Inbreeding and Outbreeding
The Costs of Inbreeding
The Benefits of Inbreeding
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Evolution of Incest Avoidance
Inbreeding Avoidance in Animals
The Coevolutionary Process: Incest Regulations in Three Incestuous Dyads
Persistence of Incest Regulations
The Evidence
Summary
8 Freud and the Family-Socialization School
Sigmund Freud-Totem and Tahoo
Bronislaw Malinowski
Brenda Z. Seligman
George Peter Murdock
Talcott Parsons
Summary
9 The Alliance School
Edward B. Tylor
Reo Fortune
Leslie A. White: The Culturologist
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structuralist
Summary
10 Goody and Schneider: The Problem of Definition
David M. Schneider: From Facts of Incest to the Meaning of Incest
Summary
11 Conclusions
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index