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Two sisters and their mother : the anthropology of incest
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Two sisters and their mother : the anthropology of incest

Author: Françoise Héritier
Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1999.
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"Anthropologist Francoise Heritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes. Through close and subtle readings, Heritier exposes the frequent, but often overlooked, elaborations concerning what she calls a secondary type of incest, namely, the prohibition of two close blood relatives engaging in sexual intercourse with a third person. Heritier not  Read more...
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Héritier, Françoise.
Two sisters and their mother.
New York : Zone Books, 1999
(OCoLC)607457785
Online version:
Héritier, Françoise.
Two sisters and their mother.
New York : Zone Books, 1999
(OCoLC)607661197
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Françoise Héritier
ISBN: 0942299337 9780942299335 0942299345 9780942299342
OCLC Number: 40602726
Description: 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Other Titles: Deux sœurs et leur mère.
Responsibility: Françoise Héritier ; translated by Jeanine Herman.

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"Anthropologist Francoise Heritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes. Through close and subtle readings, Heritier exposes the frequent, but often overlooked, elaborations concerning what she calls a secondary type of incest, namely, the prohibition of two close blood relatives engaging in sexual intercourse with a third person. Heritier not only understands this phenomenon to be as universal as the more classical "first" type of incest banning sexual relations between certain blood relatives; she advances the controversial thesis that the first type may indeed be an outgrowth of the secondary type of incest, once it is understood properly as the transfer of bodily fluids in a love triangle of sexual partners, two of whom are related to each other."--BOOK JACKET.

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