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Forbidden Fruit - An Anthropologist Looks at Incest (Paperback)
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Forbidden Fruit - An Anthropologist Looks at Incest (Paperback)
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Loot Price R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition
concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various
"social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called
blended families but which also exist in many other societies? This
prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the
multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world. But where
does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that
the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to
culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension
between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the
incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains? World-renowned
anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the
spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human
sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity.
It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the
question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.
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