Title

Review of Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century

Authors

Kathleen Barlow, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Department or Administrative Unit

Anthropology and Museum Studies

Publication Date

6-2006

Abstract

This book, the outcome of a conference (2000) marking the inauguration of the new Department of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University, focuses renewed attention on Westermarck’s hypothesis in light of recent findings from genetics, biological anthropology, primatology, ethnography, history, psychiatry, and philosophy.

Comments

This article was originally published in American Anthropologist. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Due to copyright restrictions, this article is not available for free download from ScholarWorks @ CWU.

Recommended Citation

Barlow, K. (2006). [Review of the book Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century by A. P. Wolf and W. H. Durham, eds]. American Anthropologist, 108(2), 447–448. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2006.108.2.447

Journal

American Anthropologist

Rights

© American Anthropological Association