Wolf Arthur P (134 results)

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1978. Asia, China. Stanford University Press. Good+ paperback, tight and clean 372p.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Some modest underlining, PON inside front card cover. Very light edge and corner wear.

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Some curliing of cover corners and first few pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

2014. Anthropological theory and method. Stanford Briefs/Standford University Press. Very good - bear fine paperback 177p.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 864-874 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 70, Number 5 complete issue. First edition. In this source, the author explores the preference of Taiwanese for 'minor marriage', by which son's wives are brought up as adopted daughters. Since the girl's latter status reduces the possibility for tension to develop between herself and her future mother-in-law/mother, the benefits of minor marriage for domestic harmony outweigh its disadvantages as the culturally 'despised' form of marriage. Condition: Spine and edges sunned, light edge wear, corners bumped else very good.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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 biologically-based natural aversion, but fail to explain incest taboos as cultural universals. By contrast, "conventionalists" ignore the evolutionary roots of avoidance and assume that incest avoidant behavior is guided solely by cultural taboos. Both theories are incomplete. Wolf tests his own theory with three natural experiments: bint'amm (cousin) marriage in Morocco, the rarity of marriage within Israeli kibbutz peer groups, and "minor marriages" (in which baby girls were raised by their future mother-in-law to marry an adoptive "brother") in China and Taiwan. These cross-cultural comparisons complete his original and intellectually rich theory of incest, one that marries biology and culture by accounting for both avoidance and taboo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Full red cloth binding. Tight and unmarked. 360pp. Good only jacket is worn along edges, with sunned spine. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Incest Avoidance and the Incest Taboos: Two Aspects of Human Nature. Book.

Condition: Gut. 372 S. Kartoniert. Kanten berieben; chinesischer Stempel auf Titelblatt; Deckel etwas gebogen; Deckel und einige Seiten mit Eckknickspuren; Seiten etwas nachgedunkelt, sonst gut. In englischer Sprache. [K 171].

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First paperback edition. About fine in illustrated wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 503-515 pages with tables and cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 72, number 3 complete issue. First edition. A preliminary study of household registration records from Taiwan supports Edward Westermarck's contention that intimate childhood association promotes sexual aversion. Women who are forced to marry a childhood associate bear fewer children than those who marry a stranger. They are also more likely to leave their husband by divorce or avoid him in favor of other men. This evidence suggests that the incest taboo does not prohibit what men's feelings incline them to do, as Westermarck's critics argue, but that it is instead an expression of these feelings, socially unnecessary but psychologically inevitable. Condition: Spine and edges sunned, light edge wear else very good.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Imbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century. Book.

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Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PB/pub.1978/Fair condition(underlining)/372 pages - Discusses studies in Chinese Society. [TR735427]. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues. That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud's view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives-a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association. This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? This book reexamines these questions.…