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Exogamy, endogamy and incest
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Steve Hayes
Apr 22, 2013, 12:44:09 AM4/22/13
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:07:16 +0800, Robert Bannister <rob...@clubtelco.com>
wrote:
>On 21/04/13 8:38 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:01:19 +0100, John Briggs <john.b...@ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Incest isn't a "notion", it's a legal term - and it doesn't include
>>> first cousins, let alone second couisins.
>>
>> It is a notion, or a concept, which may sometimes be given a legal expression,
>> or may sometimes just be a social taboo. It varies in different cultures. Some
>> cultures extend it to cousins of various degrees, while others don't. Some
>> cultures prefer marriages between cousins, though more prefer marriages
>> between cross-cousins than between parallel cousins. (Typos corrected)
>
>Sometimes, cultural taboos are even more complicated. As I understand
>it, some Aboriginal tribes only allowed marriage or sex between persons
>belonging to different totem groups. I don't know to what extent this is
>still practised.
Yes, there is a huge variety of cultural notions relating to exogamy, endogamy
and incest.
Perhaps this discussion belongs in sci.anthropology, since it seems to be
straying pretty far from a passing remark about an Icelandic cellphone app.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
wrote:
>On 21/04/13 8:38 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:01:19 +0100, John Briggs <john.b...@ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Incest isn't a "notion", it's a legal term - and it doesn't include
>>> first cousins, let alone second couisins.
>>
>> It is a notion, or a concept, which may sometimes be given a legal expression,
>> or may sometimes just be a social taboo. It varies in different cultures. Some
>> cultures extend it to cousins of various degrees, while others don't. Some
>> cultures prefer marriages between cousins, though more prefer marriages
>> between cross-cousins than between parallel cousins. (Typos corrected)
>
>Sometimes, cultural taboos are even more complicated. As I understand
>it, some Aboriginal tribes only allowed marriage or sex between persons
>belonging to different totem groups. I don't know to what extent this is
>still practised.
Yes, there is a huge variety of cultural notions relating to exogamy, endogamy
and incest.
Perhaps this discussion belongs in sci.anthropology, since it seems to be
straying pretty far from a passing remark about an Icelandic cellphone app.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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