The History of Human Marriage is an 1891 book by the Finnish philosopher and anthropologist Edvard Westermarck that provides an overview of marriage over...

Human–animal marriage is a marriage between a human and a non-human animal. This topic has appeared in mythology and magical fiction. In the 21st century...

of marriage have careened from one extreme to another and everywhere in between" (as Evan Gerstmann has put it). In The History of Human Marriage (1891)...

before the age of six. This hypothesis was first proposed by Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human Marriage (1891)...

The social construction of human sexuality and sexual behavior—along with its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact—has had a profound effect...

"Ethnographic Atlas Codebook", derived from Ethnographic Atlas Westermarck, Edward (1922). The History of Human Marriage. New York: Allerton Book Company....

1111/1467-9655.00065. JSTOR 2661225. Westermarck, Edward (1922). The History of Human Marriage. New York: Allerton Book Co. Abbink, Jon (December 1998). "An...

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024,[update] marriage between same-sex couples...

an interest in anthropology and reading the works of Charles Darwin. His thesis, The History of Human Marriage, was published as a book in 1891, and would...

in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of renaissance...

In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. Within the United States...

The history of human thought covers the history of philosophy, history of science and history of political thought and spans across the history of humanity...

marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child. Although the age...

The availability of legally recognized same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state (Massachusetts) in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015...

Journal of Sex Research. 19 (3): 296–302. doi:10.1080/00224498309551190. JSTOR 3812342. Westermarck, Edvard (1922). The History of Human Marriage, Vol....

Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will. A marriage can also become a...

his book The History of Human Marriage (1891). The Westermarck effect has since been observed in many places and cultures, including in the Israeli kibbutz...

(2002) Human evolutionary psychology. Palgrave, Basingstoke. Henrich J (2012). "The puzzle of monogamous marriage". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of...

Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly...

to marriage with polytheistic women. ˹But˺ demand ˹repayment of˺ whatever ˹dowries˺ you had paid, and let the disbelievers do the same. That is the judgment...

Robertson Smith: Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, p. 158; quoted in Edward Westermarck: The History of Human Marriage. New York: Allerton Books Co...

Djody, Your First Year of Marriage (Simon and Schuster, 1995) p. 37. Compare with Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage (Allerton Book Co., 1922)...

Djody, Your First Year of Marriage (Simon and Schuster, 1995) p. 37. Compare with Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage (Allerton Book Co., 1922)...

Westermarck, Edvard A. (1921). The history of human marriage, 5th edn. London: Macmillan Spiro, M. (1965). Children of the Kibbutz. New York: Schocken....

parents, and 20% of the human population live in communities practicing endogamy. Theories on the developments of consanguineous marriage as a taboo can...

outside of her tent, inside of which the couple would proceed to have intercourse. Edvard Westermarck, however, in The History of Human Marriage, suggested...

polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, it...

repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states and territories (though not tribes) to recognize the validity...

The history of the family is a branch of social history that concerns the sociocultural evolution of kinship groups from prehistoric to modern times. The...