Factors of Sexual Freedom Among Foragers in Cross-Cultural Perspective  

Oleh:

Korotayev, Andrey V. ; Kazankov, Alexander A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cross-Cultural Research vol. 37 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 29-61.
Topik: Keywords: gender; sex; female status; hunter-gatherers; cultural evolution
Fulltext: 29CCR371.pdf (159.56KB)

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Among the negative predictors of sexual freedom, cultural complexity always has been mentioned as most important. However, regression analysis revealed the existence of a reverse trend within the interval between 11 and 22 points of Murdock’s Cumulative Scale of Cultural Complexity. This suggests that it is senseless to try to find a general set of regularities regarding the correlation between cultural complexity and sexual freedom. One would expect to find different sets of regularities for simple, medium-complexity, complex, and supercomplex cultures. In this article we begin with a summary analysis of research conducted on simple societies, suggesting a model of relationships between cultural complexity and female premarital sexual freedom among foragers. We suggest that the underlying variable in this model is foraging intensification.

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