Ecological Factors in the Origin of Incest

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American AnthropologistVolume 61, Issue 6 p. 1042-1059 Free Access Ecological Factors in the Origin of Incest MARIAM KREISELMAN SLATER, MARIAM KREISELMAN SLATER Queens CollegeSearch for more papers by this author MARIAM KREISELMAN SLATER, MARIAM KREISELMAN SLATER Queens CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1959 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1959.61.6.02a00090Citations: 50AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Cited Arensberg, Conrad M. 1957 Anthropology as history. In Trade and market in the early empires. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press. Chapple, Eliot D. and Conrad M. Arensberg 1940 Measuring human relations. Genetic Psychology Monographs No. 22. Childe, V. Gordon 1956 The new stone age. In Man, culture and society, Harry L. Shapiro ed. New York, Oxford University Press. Firth, Raymond 1936 We, the Tikopia. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.. Ford, C. S. 1945 A comparative study of human reproduction. Yale University Papers in Anthropology XXXII. Fortes, Meyer 1936 Kinship incest, and exogamy of the northern territories of the Gold Coast. In Custom is King, L. H. Dudley Buxton ed. London, Scientific and Technical Publications. Henshaw, Paul S. 1953 Physiologic control of fertility. Science 117, No. 3048: 572– 582. Hoebel, E. Adamson 1949 Man in the primitive world. New York, McGraw-Hill. Homans, George C. 1950 The human group. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co.. Homans, George C. and David M. Schneider 1955 Marriage, authority, and final causes: A study of unilateral cross-cousin marriage. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press. Hooton, Earnest A. 1947 Up from the ape. New York, Macmillan Co.. Krzywicki, Ludwik 1934 Primitive society and its vital statistics. New York, Macmillan Co.. Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1949 Les structures elementaires de la parenté. Paris, Presses universitaires de France. Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1956 The family. In Man, culture and society, Harry L. Shapiro ed. New York, Oxford University Press. Parsons, Talcott 1954 The incest taboo in relation to social structure and the socialization of the child. British Journal of Sociology, pp. 102– 115. Polanyi, Karl, Conrad M. Arensberg, and Harry W. Pearson 1957 Trade and market in the early empires. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press. Sauer, Carl O. 1947 Early relations of man to plants. Geographical Review Vol. XXXVII, No. 1. Seligman, Brenda Z. 1950 The problem of incest and exogamy: A restatement. American Anthropologist 52: 305– 16. Simmons, Leo 1945 The role of the aged in primitive society. New Haven, Yale University Press. Steward, Julian H. 1955 Theory of culture change. Urbana, University of Illinois Press. Todd, T. Wingate 1927 Skeletal records of mortality. Scientific Monthly 24: 481– 496. Tylor, E. B. 1888 On a method of investigating the development of institutions. JRAI 18: 245– 269. White, Leslie A. 1949 The science of culture. New York, Farrar, Straus and Co.. Citing Literature Volume61, Issue6December 1959Pages 1042-1059 ReferencesRelatedInformation