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Re: Incest taboos
Lemonhead (karpiak@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:59:00 -0500
On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Robert C. Craighurst wrote:
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> How universal is the notion of prohibiting incest (by any
> recognizable definition)? For example, do ALL human cultures prohibit
> incest in some way? Are there ANY that don't care. If so, how rare are they
> (roughly)? Any references in the literature?
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In Cultural Anthropology by Conrad Kottak it says that
mother/son, father/daughter, and brother/sister incest is found among all
known cultures, but that doesn't mean it is genetic, it could just simply
be a very useful cultural adaptation. fire is found in all known
cultures also, but I would like to see someone argue that the ability to
make fire is genetic also.
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