Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin MarriageUniversity of Illinois Press, 1996 - 179 páginas Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief--widely held in the United States--that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the U.S. prohibition against such unions originated largely because of the belief that it would promote more rapid assimilation of immigrants. A social anthropologist, Martin Ottenheimer questioned U.S. laws against cousin marriage because his international research into marriage patterns showed no European countries prohibit such unions. He examines the historical development of U.S. laws governing marriage, contrasts them with European laws, and analyzes the genetic implications of first cousin marriage. Modern genetic evidence, Ottenheimer says, doesn't support the concept that children of these unions are at any special risk. Ottenheimer's book, the only volume available that deals with kinship in this way, will challenge readers and give them much to consider and discuss. |
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... concerns . Two thousand years of documentation provides evidence for some form of ban against the marriage of ... concerned that the offspring of cousins would inherit defects . The American myth of cousin marriage appears to be a modern ...
... concerns . Two thousand years of documentation provides evidence for some form of ban against the marriage of ... concerned that the offspring of cousins would inherit defects . The American myth of cousin marriage appears to be a modern ...
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... concern of lawmakers . For reasons discussed later , this change was accompanied by a shift in the focus on the relatives prohibited from marrying . Cousins , rather than in- laws , became the primary concern of the new laws . By 1890 ...
... concern of lawmakers . For reasons discussed later , this change was accompanied by a shift in the focus on the relatives prohibited from marrying . Cousins , rather than in- laws , became the primary concern of the new laws . By 1890 ...
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... concern since they did not threaten to produce less physically fit offspring . Under the influence of these ideas ( discussed in detail in the following chapters ) , states joining the Union tended to pass laws forbidding the marriage ...
... concern since they did not threaten to produce less physically fit offspring . Under the influence of these ideas ( discussed in detail in the following chapters ) , states joining the Union tended to pass laws forbidding the marriage ...
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... concern with biogenetics in U.S. marital law . The distinction between first and second cousins is familiar to most English speakers , but throughout the world distinctions are made between different types of first cousins that are ...
... concern with biogenetics in U.S. marital law . The distinction between first and second cousins is familiar to most English speakers , but throughout the world distinctions are made between different types of first cousins that are ...
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... concern that offspring will have unwanted physical characteristics . Cross - cousin marriages , in contrast , are expected to be blessed with normal children . Although the laws in the United States are not concerned with many of these ...
... concern that offspring will have unwanted physical characteristics . Cross - cousin marriages , in contrast , are expected to be blessed with normal children . Although the laws in the United States are not concerned with many of these ...
Contenido
US Laws Prohibiting the Marriage of Relatives | 19 |
The Reasons for US Laws against First Cousin Marriage | 42 |
European Laws Prohibiting the Marriage of Relatives | 61 |
European Views of Cousin Marriage | 79 |
The Evolutionary Factor | 94 |
Biogenetics and First Cousin Marriage | 116 |
Culture and Cousin Marriage | 134 |
Bibliography | 155 |
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Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage Martin Ottenheimer Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage Martin Ottenheimer Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage Martin Ottenheimer Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Términos y frases comunes
affinal prohibitions affinal relationships affinal relatives alliance theory alliances Bemiss brother's daughter child close kin marriage close relatives consanguineal marriage consanguineal relatives cous cousin marriage cousins from marrying cross-cousin marriage cultural descent group dispensations endogamy England exogamy father's sister forbidden to marry forbidding founder effect frequency genetic genetic drift George Darwin hemophilia hibitions homozygous human social husband in-laws inbreeding incest individuals legislation Leviticus Lewis Henry Morgan list of forbidden list of prohibited marriage of relatives marriage prohibitions Morgan myth of cousin niece nineteenth century offspring of cousin parallel-cousin parents percent permitted population prohibited first cousin prohibited from marrying prohibited marriages prohibitions against cousin recessive gene regulations result riage Roman Catholic church second cousins siblings sister's daughter society son's wife spouses statutes theory tion Tylor unilineal descent United wife's daughter X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XXX