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Write short note: Incest taboo.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Systems of Kinship

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The incest taboo prohibits sexual relations, and usually marriage, between persons defined as close kin. George Peter Murdock (Social Structure, 1949) found it in every society in his cross-cultural sample, always covering the nuclear family. It is universal in core yet variable in scope, which makes it a central puzzle of kinship theory.

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