Correlates of the long post-partum taboo:  a cross-cultural study

"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with customary polygyny" (243)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Customary Polygyny	Independent	Polygamy
Long Postpartum Taboo	Dependent	General Sex Restrictions, Postnatal Care

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which male genital mutilations are customary" (244)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	"However, when we control on Whiting's predictor, i.e., presence or absence of a long postpartum sex taboo, a strong relationship between high male mortality and polygyny still obtains, in the presence of both a long and a short postpartum sex taboo" (202)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	"There is no significant association between a long postpartum taboo and polygyny in either the high or low male mortality situation . . . when we control for male mortality in warfare" (202)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1976	Polygynous societies that engage in a long postpartum sexual taboo will be positively correlated with males who are more likely to be segregated at puberty (206)	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1976	Polygynous societies that engage in a long postpartum sexual taboo will be positively correlated with males who are more likely to be circumcised at puberty (206)	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author