Hypotheses
- Societies in which mother and son sleep in the same bed and the father sleeps in another hut/village will be more likely to have male circumcision than societies in which the father sleeps in the same hut (280).Kitahara, Michio - Social contact versus bodily contact: a qualitative difference between fathe..., 1978 - 2 Variables
This article draws on psychoanalytic theory and a previous study by Whiting (1964) to test the relationship between parent-child sleeping arrangements, particularly the implied social distance of fathers, and the presence of circumcision for males. Circumcision is assumed to be a social correction for mother-oriented personality in sons.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies in which the mother and son sleep in the same bed and the father sleeps separately in the same hut will be more likely to have male circumcision; societies in which the mother and son sleep separately but in the same hut with the father will be less likely to have male circumsion (279).Kitahara, Michio - Social contact versus bodily contact: a qualitative difference between fathe..., 1978 - 2 Variables
This article draws on psychoanalytic theory and a previous study by Whiting (1964) to test the relationship between parent-child sleeping arrangements, particularly the implied social distance of fathers, and the presence of circumcision for males. Circumcision is assumed to be a social correction for mother-oriented personality in sons.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - When the father sleeps in a separate hut, mother-baby sleeping arrangements (in same or separate beds) will only be weakly associated with circumcision (279).Kitahara, Michio - Social contact versus bodily contact: a qualitative difference between fathe..., 1978 - 2 Variables
This article draws on psychoanalytic theory and a previous study by Whiting (1964) to test the relationship between parent-child sleeping arrangements, particularly the implied social distance of fathers, and the presence of circumcision for males. Circumcision is assumed to be a social correction for mother-oriented personality in sons.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - For societies in which the mother and son do not sleep in the same bed, father-son sleeping distance will be more weakly associated with circumcision than in societies where the mother and son sleep in the same bed (281).Kitahara, Michio - Social contact versus bodily contact: a qualitative difference between fathe..., 1978 - 2 Variables
This article draws on psychoanalytic theory and a previous study by Whiting (1964) to test the relationship between parent-child sleeping arrangements, particularly the implied social distance of fathers, and the presence of circumcision for males. Circumcision is assumed to be a social correction for mother-oriented personality in sons.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "In polygynous societies, if each co-wife lives in a separate quarter with her children, and if there is a long post-partum sexual taboo, males are most likely to be circumcised and/or segregated at puberty, compared with societies [which lack one or the other of these factors]" (406).Kitahara, Michio - Living quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of ..., 1974 - 3 Variables
This article examines the relationship between polygynous living quarter arrangements and the presence or absence of circumcision and segregation of males at puberty. The amount of contact between the father and son is also examined as a factor.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In polygynous societies, separate living quarters for co-wives are positively associated with male circumcision at puberty (404).Kitahara, Michio - Living quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of ..., 1974 - 2 Variables
This article examines the relationship between polygynous living quarter arrangements and the presence or absence of circumcision and segregation of males at puberty. The amount of contact between the father and son is also examined as a factor.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - ". . . a long post-partum sexual taboo could become instrumental in increasing the possibility of circumcision and/or segregation only when it is present in societies having separate living quarters for co-wives" (408)Kitahara, Michio - Living quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of ..., 1974 - 3 Variables
This article examines the relationship between polygynous living quarter arrangements and the presence or absence of circumcision and segregation of males at puberty. The amount of contact between the father and son is also examined as a factor.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In polygynous societies, separate living quarters for co-wives are positively associated with male segregation at puberty (404).Kitahara, Michio - Living quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of ..., 1974 - 2 Variables
This article examines the relationship between polygynous living quarter arrangements and the presence or absence of circumcision and segregation of males at puberty. The amount of contact between the father and son is also examined as a factor.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In polygynous societies, separate living quarters for co-wives are positively associated with male circumcision and/or male segregation at puberty (405).Kitahara, Michio - Living quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of ..., 1974 - 3 Variables
This article examines the relationship between polygynous living quarter arrangements and the presence or absence of circumcision and segregation of males at puberty. The amount of contact between the father and son is also examined as a factor.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Inbreeding theory suggests that societies with smaller average communities are less likely to permit cousin marriage than societies with larger average communities.Ember, Melvin - On the origin and extension of the incest taboo, 1975 - 2 Variables
This paper seeks to explain the presence of the incest taboo, and its occasional extension to first cousins. After considering prevailing theories logically, the author conducts tests of the three prevailing theories, and concludes that inbreeding theory is both the most logically sound and is best supported by ethnographic evidence. The author subsequently addresses possible exceptions to this theory, and includes a mathematical model which suggests that early expanding agricultural populations may have been able to notice the deleterious effects of inbreeding.
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