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1 online resource |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 63 |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 63.
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| Contents |
Cover; Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 63; Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Consanguineous marriage, past and present; Introduction; Early urban development and social stratification; Human mating as a genetic continuum; Basic measurements of consanguinity in human populations; Western attitudes to consanguineous marriage; Marriage in geographical, social and religious isolates; Anecdotal tales of close kin unions -- licit and illicit; Consanguineous marriage among European royalty and other dynasties |
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The Spanish HabsburgsThe Rothschild banking family; The Lubavicher Hasidim; Commentary; 2 Religious attitudes and rulings on consanguineous marriage; Introduction; Consanguinity and religion; Judaism; Christianity; Legislation on consanguineous marriage within the early Christian Church; Regulation of consanguinity in the Latin Church; The attitudes of Post-Reformation Protestant denominations to consanguineous marriage; The Anglican schism; Islam; Hinduism; Sikhism; Buddhism; Confucian/Taoist tradition; Zoroastrian/Parsi; Commentary; 3 Civil legislation on consanguineous and affinal marriage |
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IntroductionThe law in Great Britain on consanguinity and affinity; Countries with civil legislation restricting consanguineous marriage; United States of America; Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan; The Republic of Korea and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea; The Philippines; Consanguineous marriage and international law; Commentary; 4 Consanguinity: the scientific and medical debates of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Introduction; Early medical studies on consanguinity in the USA; Dr Samuel Bemiss and the health outcomes of consanguinity |
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Lewis Henry Morgan and the classification of biological relationshipsAlexander Graham Bell, consanguinity and the education of the deaf; George Arner and consanguineous marriage in the USA; Early consanguinity studies in Great Britain and Ireland; Sir William Wilde, cousin marriage and deaf-mutism; Dr Arthur Mitchell and cousin marriage in Scots fishing villages; Charles Darwin, cousin marriage and family concerns; George Darwin and isonymy; Cousin marriage in decline; Eugenics and the consanguinity debate; Consanguinity and the application of biometric analysis |
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Sir Francis Galton, consanguinity and paradoxical factsEugenics and purging of the gene pool; Commentary; 5 Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of consanguineous marriage; Introduction; The global prevalence of consanguineous marriage; Western societies; Japan; South Asia; South India; Pakistan; The Middle East; Societal and regional preferences in types of consanguineous marriage; Demographic, social and economic correlates of consanguinity; Consanguinity, education and socioeconomic status; Consanguinity, age at marriage and reproductive span |
| Summary |
An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Consanguinity, marital stability and marital violence |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human population genetics.
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Consanguinity.
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Consanguinity -- Health aspects
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Kinship.
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Incest -- Psychological aspects
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Population genetics.
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Consanguinity
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Family Relations
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Genetics, Population
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Incest -- psychology
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kinship.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Population genetics
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Consanguinity
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Human population genetics
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Incest -- Psychological aspects
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Kinship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139423557 |
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113942355X |
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1280682868 |
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9781280682865 |
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9781139015844 |
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1139015842 |
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9781139419468 |
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1139419463 |
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1139411160 |
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9781139411165 |
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1107225396 |
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9781107225398 |
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1139422480 |
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9781139422482 |
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9786613659804 |
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6613659800 |
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