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Research Topics on: incest

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Books on: incest

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Encyclopedia Articles on: incest

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    Incest
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    INCEST sexual relations between persons to whom marriage...vary widely from group to group, hence the definition of incest also varies. Customs prescribing whom a person may and...intermarriage of close relatives. Even modern prohibitions of incest are based only in part on the observed fact that inherited...
     
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    Child Abuse
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...inappropriately harsh discipline. Sexual abuse includes molestation, incest, rape, prostitution, or use of a child for pornographic purposes...Battered Child (1987); D. E. H. Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (1986); R. E. Helfer and R...
     
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    Malle, Louis
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...The Fire Within (1963), for example, concerns the last hours of a man approaching suicide, Murmur of the Heart (1971) with incest, and Lacombe, Lucien (1974) with the French resistance and collaboration during World War II. Frequently centering on social...
     
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    Consanguinity
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...the term as it relates to the laws of marriage, descent, and inheritance; for its broader anthropological implications, see incest . Consanguinity is to be distinguished from affinity, which is the relation of a person, through marriage, to the consanguineous...
     
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    Marriage
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a group). These rules may be prescriptive or, as in the case of the incest taboo, proscriptive; they generally apply to kinship groups such as clan or lineage; residential groups; and social groups...
     

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