Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 in Helsinki – 3 September 1939 in Tenala) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects...

anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human Marriage (1891) as one explanation for the incest taboo. The Westermarck effect has gained...

Westermarck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bjarne Westermarck (1887–1945), Finnish politician Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish...

following her death in 1952. The Finnish philosopher and sociologist Edvard Westermarck (1862-1939) rented Keeper's Cottage as his summer residence between...

humanity's closest primate relatives, avoid incest. The Westermarck effect, first proposed by Edvard Westermarck in 1891, is the theory that children reared together...

This phenomenon, known as the Westermarck effect, was first formally described by Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human...

Development of the Moral Ideas is a book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, published between 1906 and 1908. One of his main works, it is a monumental...

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

as Finland's national philosopher, as well as in the 20th century Edvard Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright and Jaakko Hintikka, who have...

conducted long field studies of Palestinians. She was a student of Edvard Westermarck. In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside...

proposed different theories to account for the origin of exogamy. Edvard Westermarck said an aversion to marriage between blood relatives or near kin emerged...

Ethical Relativity is a 1932 book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, one of his main works. Westermark attacks the idea that moral principles...

on Edvard Westermarck's hypothesis that sexual desire is generally absent in relationships between members of a nuclear family due to the Westermarck Effect...

(1861–1944) Robert Latou Dickinson (1861–1950) Albert Moll (1862–1939) Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939) Clelia Duel Mosher (1863–1940) Eugene Wilhelm (aka Numa...

historical works. In her research, she worked beside her brother, Edvard Westermarck, in the British Library. She began her pioneering biographic works...

mother's attitudes did not have a noticeable impact. Anthropologist Edvard Westermarck found that children who are brought up together as siblings are desensitized...

1819: Alexander Campbell Fraser born. 1894: John Veitch dies. 1939: Edvard Westermarck dies. 1965: Albert Schweitzer dies. 1888: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...

Evan Gerstmann has put it). In The History of Human Marriage (1891), Edvard Westermarck defined marriage as "a more or less durable connection between male...

20th century, this notion was rejected by a number of authors, e.g. Edvard Westermarck, a Finnish philosopher, social anthropologist and sociologist with...

of seasons and death and resurrection. The Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck connected the tradition to the Roman Saturnalia festival. The Moroccan...

use her beauty to seduce local men and then madden or kill them. Edvard Westermarck claimed that Aicha Kandicha's name is "distinctly of Eastern origin...

Welby (1837–1912) Felix Weltsch (1884–1964) Cornel West (born 1953) Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939)[1] Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)[4][5] Frantisek Weyr (or Franz...

Islamic dietary laws, the wolf is important in Moroccan folk medicine. Edvard Westermarck wrote of several remedies derived from the wolf in Morocco, including...

social worker John Westergaard (1931–2003), British sociologist Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher Nathan Whetten (1900–1984)...

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

Reenpää Esa Saarinen Juha Sihvola Johan Vilhelm Snellman Raimo Tuomela Jouko Turkka Juha Varto Thomas Wallgren Edvard Westermarck Georg Henrik von Wright...

(1889–1969) Yrjö Väisälä – astronomer, meteorologist (1891–1971) Edvard Westermarck – philosopher, sociologist (1862–1939) Joy Wolfram – nanoscientist...

following people have served as rectors of Åbo Akademi: 1918–1921: Edvard Westermarck 1921–1929: Severin Johansson [fi] 1929–1936: Otto Andersson 1936–1942:...

Ragnar Granit Ernst Leonard Lindelöf Rolf Nevanlinna Linus Torvalds Edvard Westermarck Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Yrjö Väisälä Georg Henrik von Wright Arvo...

see hooks, bell, p. 79. "matriarchy". Online Etymology Dictionary. Edvard Westermarck (1921), The History of Human Marriage, Vol. 3, London: Macmillan,...