Legal Systems and Incest Taboos
Author: Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher: AldineTransaction
Published:
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1412843294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: The transition from childhood to adolescence. Chicago : Aldine, 1964.
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Legal Systems and Incest Taboos
Author: John R. Commons
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1351509012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual's evolution from childhood adolescence. The specific ways in which different societies cope with the transition from childhood to adolescence are important because a sense of responsibility, consonant with the goals of the society and survival of family and culture, is implanted in the growing child. The ways in which incest taboos are taught constitute one of the crucial modes by which a sense of responsibility is implanted within an individual during his transition from childhood to adolescence. The author places most of his focus on social systems, the transition from childhood to adolescence. Theoretical concerns are with the ways in which human biology and human social structures impact each other. The fact that wide variations do exist among societies in connection with certain types of incest taboos does not lead inevitably to the conclusion that there is no biological basis for the incest taboo. The immediate impression of variability can be misleading; extreme differences between cultures in the same institutional realm, as between individuals, often reveals remarkable regularity and consistency. These regularities are seen in the cultural phenomena; the assumption that biology and culture are bound up in their manifestations is fundamental in understanding their nature
Legal Systems & Incest Taboos
Author: Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780202363677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: The transition from childhood to adolescence. Chicago : Aldine, 1964.
Sexually Abused Children & Their Families
Author: P. B. Mrazek
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-06-28
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1483296059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of 18 articles provides information about a diversity of issues - recognition, legal codes, evaluation, psychodynamics, treatment, prognosis and outcome. Included are reports on an extensive survey of professional recognition in England and an examination of European criminal law relating to child sexual abuse, theoretical models of psychosexual development within the family and incest as an expression of a dysfunctional family system. Attention is given to special problems of treatment along with reports on three on-going treatment programmes. Two useful features of the book are a comprehensive bibliography and a critique of available audio-visual materials.
The Transformation of Family Law
Author: Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780226299709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade. "Glendon is generally acknowledged to be the premier comparative law scholar in the area of family law. This volume, which offers an analytical survey of the changes in family law over the past twenty-five years, will burnish that reputation. Essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating the major changes that occurred in the law of the family. . . . [And] of serious interest to those in the social sciences as well."—James B. Boskey, Law Books in Review "Poses important questions and supplies rich detail."—Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Texas Law Review "An impressive scholarly documentation of the legal changes that comprise the development of a conjugally-centered family system."—Debra Friedman, Contemporary Sociology "She has painted a portrait of the family in which we recognize not only ourselves but also unremembered ideological forefathers. . . . It sends our thoughts out into unexpected adventures."—Inga Markovits, Michigan Law Review
Incest
Author: Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1317257677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history humans have been fascinated with incest. Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and patterns of human social organization. Drawing upon the rich legacy of theory, empirical data, and speculation about the origins of the incest taboo, this book develops a new explanation for, not only the emergence of the taboo in hominid and human evolutionary history, but also for the varying strength of the taboo for the incestuous dyads of the nuclear family, the different rates of incest of these dyads, and the dramatic differences the psychological pathology incest has on its younger victims. Synthesizing findings from biology, sociobiology, neurology, primatology, clinical psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the authors weave together a scenario of how natural selection initially generated mechanisms of sexual avoidance; and then, as the nuclear family emerged in hominid and human evolution, how sociocultural selection led to the development of the incest taboo.
The Legal System
Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1975-08-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1610442288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the impact of social forces on the legal system and how the rules and orders promulgated by that legal system affect social behavior. Dr. Friedman explores the relationship between class structure and the work of legal systems in the light of the existing literature and analyzes the influence of the cultural elements contained in a legal system. In a comprehensive analysis of the concept of legal culture, the author sheds new light on the development of our legal norms and the types of legal systems which prevail in a democracy.
Adventures in the Stone Age
Author: Leopold Jaroslav Pospíšil
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Published: 2021-11-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 8024647516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku. Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among the Kapauku, Pospíšil discovers that the supposedly primitive society possesses laws, rules, and social structures that are as sophisticated as they are logical. Having survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and fled the Communist regime, Pospíšil has little patience for the notion that so-called advanced civilizations are superior to the ‘stone age’ society in which he now lives. On the basis of his research and experiences among the Kapauku – he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979 – Pospíšil pioneered in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on the Kapauku law. As Jaroslav Jiřík and Martin Soukup write in their afterword, however, “His three previously published works are about the Kapauku; this one is about the anthropologist among the Kapauku.” The memoir is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war – told with humor and humility—and accompanied by a wealth of the author’s personal photos from the time.
Man in Adaptation
Author: Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher: AldineTransaction
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1412852358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw in Culture and Society
Author: Laura Nader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-04-25
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780520208339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A classic collection in the anthropology of law. While some exceptionally good descriptive work is presented, the volume is particularly valuable in providing a range of thoughtful, engaged, and empirically grounded theoretical explorations of issues in the comparative study of law and conflict."—Donald Brenneis, author of Dangerous Words
