人类婚姻史

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Westermarck published “The History of Human Marriage” in London in 1891, with a preface by Alfred Russel Wallace; an expanded fifth edition in three volumes appeared in 1921. Drawing on ethnographic reports from all over the world and on Darwin’s theory, the book disputes the then widespread view that human society began with promiscuity or group marriage and argues that marriage-like pair bonds go back to the earliest humans. It explains the avoidance of incest by an aversion that develops between people raised together. The book made Westermarck famous; its incest hypothesis, criticised by Freud and Lévi-Strauss, was later supported by empirical studies and is now called the “Westermarck effect”.

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