Two sisters and their mother
the anthropology of incest
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Publication
1999 - Zone Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
85,250 words, Guess
Page Count
341 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16955776M
- ISBN-100942299337
- OCLC Control Number40602726
- Library of Congress Control Number98056163
- Goodreads2185498
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- LibraryThing6993681
Classifications
- LCCGN480.3 .H4613 1999
Description
"Anthropologist Francoise Heritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes. Through close and subtle readings, Heritier exposes the frequent, but often overlooked, elaborations concerning what she calls a secondary type of incest, namely, the prohibition of two close blood relatives engaging in sexual intercourse with a third person. Heritier not only understands this phenomenon to be as universal as the more classical "first" type of incest banning sexual relations between certain blood relatives; she advances the controversial thesis that the first type may indeed be an outgrowth of the secondary type of incest, once it is understood properly as the transfer of bodily fluids in a love triangle of sexual partners, two of whom are related to each other."--BOOK JACKET.
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