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Re: Adaptive Suicide
Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:30:16 +0000
>I can think of a couple more of these kinds of hypotheses, but that's enough
>(if not too much) for now. Do any of you have comments or suggestions
>regarding these hypotheses or this topic in general? Do any of you know
>of published work on this subject? Do any of you know of ethnographic work or
>mentions of suicide?
Ummm... well, it's not that I don't appreciate the biological recasting of
the problem of suicide (I do), but the ethnographic work on suicide goes
back to Durkheim and the founders of sociological theory, who were, not
surprisingly, more interested in social factors of causation (e.g. anomie)
rather than evolutionary-adaptive ones.
I think the basic hypothesis that, as one's social relationships
begin to dwindle and one becomes more alienated from society, suicide is
likely to increase, remains fairly accurate too.
>Sorry for this long posting and thanks for your indulgence.
>
>Rob Quinlan, grad. student, dept of anthro, u. of missouri-columbia
>c611417@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Yours,
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