Long Postpartum Taboo

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Kitahara, MichioLiving quarter arrangements in polygyny and circumcision and segregation of males at puberty
Sweetser, Dorrian AppleAvoidance, social affiliation, and the incest taboo
Saucier, Jean-FrancoisCorrelates of the long post-partum taboo: a cross-cultural study

Associated Hypotheses (16)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Kitahara, Michio". . . a long post-partum sexual taboo could become instrumental in increasing the possibility of circumcision and/or segregation only when it is present in societies having separate living quarters for co-wives" (408)
Kitahara, Michio"In polygynous societies, if each co-wife lives in a separate quarter with her children, and if there is a long post-partum sexual taboo, males are most likely to be circumcised and/or segregated at puberty, compared with societies [which lack one or the other of these factors]" (406).
Sweetser, Dorrian AppleContrary to the findings of William N. Stephens no significant association was found between avoidance and a long postpartum sex taboo (311)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent . . . in societies subsisting mainly on extensive agriculture and horticulture . . . in contrast to societies subsisting mainly on gathering, hunting, fishing, animal husbandry . . . intensive or modern agriculture" (243)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"Long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies requiring bridewealth or exchange of a female relative to obtain a wife" (243)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with customary polygyny" (243)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"The long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which women gather under the supervision of men, in contrast to societies in which the gathering is done exclusively by women" (243)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with unilineal kin groups" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with localized kin groups" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which the succession of office of local headman is hereditary" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies where the inheritance of real property is not equal between siblings" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which the high god is defined as otiose and not concerned with human affairs" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which male genital mutilations are customary" (244)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with the rule of duolateral cross cousin marriage in contrast to societies allowing quadrilateral cousin marriage" (245)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"The long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies that prescribe partial or complete segregation of boys at puberty" (245)
Saucier, Jean-Francois"A long postpartum taboo will be associated least frequently with monogamy and increasingly frequently with family forms characterized by increasing isolation of the wife from her husband and the rest of the household" (246)

Associated OCMs

  1. general sex restrictions
  2. postnatal care