Historians primarily focus on proximate causes & they don't test hypotheses. Jared Diamond's comparative method in Guns, Germs & Steel does.
@AlWest13 @christopherburd all societies are exogamous??: http://consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence …
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@hbdchick@christopherburd ...negating the Westermarck effect. All societies are exogamous. -
@AlWest13 exogamous doesn't mean avoiding incest with immediate family. -
@hbdchick Strictly speaking, it does. 'Exogamy' is defined depending on the unit in question (family, clan, etc). That's Kinship 101. -
@AlWest13 i'm interested in consanguineous marriages - and THOSE are quite common in many areas of the world. -
@hbdchick Perhaps. But I don't think that makes Saudis or Pakistanis innately, instead of culturally, clannish. -
@AlWest13 not perhaps - definitely. see the data at http://consang.net . and: why not? -
@hbdchick Because I know lots of Indians whose parents do/did the same thing, and yet they're as open-minded and un-clannish as any Briton. -
@AlWest13 1) which indians (what caste)? 2) doesn't matter about *just* parents. we're (i'm) talking about evolution:http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/clannishness-defined/ … - 1 more reply
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@hbdchick@christopherburd Also societies preferring 1st cousin marriage do not always actually do it. See classificatory cousins, e.g. -
@AlWest13 see the stats on http://consang.net . 50%+ of marriages in saudi arabia and pakistan are consanguineous.
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@hbdchick@christopherburd If you think otherwise, you don't know what the word actually means. Doesn't mean 'doesn't fuck their cousins'. -
@AlWest13 i'm talking about consanguineous matings. that is definitely a type of endogamy. which means all societies are NOT exogamous.
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@hbdchick@christopherburd Only royals (Inka, Hawaiian, &c) habitually marry/screw siblings/parents, due to separation in childhood... -
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@christopherburd@hbdchick ...although the idea had its roots in how Germanic kindreds already functioned, AFAIK -
@AlWest13@christopherburd nope. the pre-christian germanics likely married close cousins, too. according to the historians.
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