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incest prohibition: a standalone construct

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Social anthropology

the rule forbidding sex or marriage between close kin, which Lévi-Strauss treated as the universal step that turns biological families into exchanging social groups.

In social anthropology, incest prohibition refers to the rule forbidding sex or marriage between close kin, which Lévi-Strauss treated as the universal step that turns biological families into exchanging social groups. This meaning comes from Lévi-Strauss (1969) in The elementary structures of kinship.[1]

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  1. Lévi-Strauss, C. (1969). The elementary structures of kinship. Beacon Press. Open Library record

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