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A Review of - The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives.

Gadagkar, R (1994) A Review of - The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. In: Tropical Ecology, 35 . pp. 349-352.

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Nancy Wilmsen Thornhill (ed.). 1993. The Natw-al History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. viii+575 p. Price US $ 37.50 (Paper). (ISBN 0-226- 79855-0). Man's obsession with the question of who can and who cannot marry whom has been an ancient and abiding one. Taboos against incest are universal across virtually all human cultures (Wilson 1978). The laws of MamL. which have provided the basis of social mores and customs of Hindus for centuries. make some of the most surprisingly explicit recommendations in this regard. In particular. there is very specific advise on how many generations should elapse before the descendants of a single person can marry each other (Narasimhamurthy 1968). The high point of the distinguished anthropologist. Irawati Karve's study of kinship organization in India is her interpretation of the relatively greater prevalence of marriage among cousins and other close relatives in Southern India and the relative rarity of such a custom in Northern India as being based on their contrasting agricultural and pastoral economies respectively (KaTVe 1965). Of the 2753 relatively. homogeneous communities in India. identified by the Anthropological Suivey oflndia, uncle-niece marriage is permitted in 20.2% of the communities but forbidden in the rest (Singh 1991).

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Tropical Ecology
Publisher: Unknown
Additional Information: The copyright of the article is belongs to the Authors.
Keywords: Book Review, Inbreeding, Outbreeding, Natural History, Eugenic Mechanism, Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Perspectives
Department/Centre: Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited: 16 Mar 2021 06:06
Last Modified: 01 Jun 2022 11:48
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/67759

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