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

"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which male genital mutilations are customary" (244)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Long Postpartum Taboo	Dependent	General Sex Restrictions, Postnatal Care
Male Genital Mutilations Customary	Independent	Body Alterations

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with customary polygyny" (243)	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
Kitahara, Michio	1976	Polygynous societies that engage in a long postpartum sexual taboo will be positively associated with male segregation at puberty when the factor of living-quarter arrangements is controlled (206)	Not Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kitahara, Michio	1976	Polygynous societies that engage in a long postpartum sexual taboo will be positively associated with male circumcision at puberty when the factor of living-quarter arrangements is controlled (206)	Not Supported	4	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