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Forbidden relatives : the American myth of cousin marriage / Martin Ottenheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ottenheimer, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cross-cousin marriage--United States.
- Cross-cousin marriage.
- Cross-cousin marriage--Europe.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Europe--Social life and customs.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Forbidden Relative challenges the belief-widely held in the United States-that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the U.S. prohibition against such unions originated largely because of the belief that it would promote more rapid assimilation of immigrants.
- Contents:
- U.S. laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives
- The reasons for U.S. laws against first cousin marriage
- European laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives
- European views of cousin marriage
- The evolutionary factor
- Biogenetics and first cousin marriage
- Culture and cousin marriage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252022394
- 0252065409
- OCLC:
- 33408080
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