The history of human marriage by Edward Westermarck
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"The history of human marriage" by Edward Westermarck is a work published in 1891. This monumental anthropological study attempts a grand synthesis of marriage as a social institution across world history. Westermarck argues that marriage rests on biological foundations, evolving through human needs for companionship, economic cooperation, and child-rearing. The work also introduces what became known as the Westermarck effect—a theory explaining sexual desensitization among those raised in close proximity and the
origins of incest taboos. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939 |
|---|---|
| Author of introduction, etc. | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 |
| Title | The history of human marriage |
| Edition | Third edition |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Human_Marriage |
| Contents | Introduction -- The origin of marriage -- A human pairing season in primitive times -- The antiquity of human marriage -- A criticism of the hypothesis of promiscuity -- Marriage and celibacy -- The courtship of man -- Means of attraction -- The liberty of choice -- Sexual selection among animals -- The sexual selection of man: typical beauty -- The law of similarity -- Prohibition of marriage between kindred -- Sexual selection as influenced by affection and sympathy, and by calculation -- Marriage by capture and marriage by purchase -- The decay of marriage by purchase; the marriage portion -- Marriage ceremonies and rites -- The forms of human marriage -- The duration of human marriage -- Summary. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (www.hathitrust.org/) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender |
| Subject | Marriage -- History |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59386 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-59386-9 |
| Release Date | Apr 28, 2019 |
| Last Update | Jun 15, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2874 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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