Table of Contents

Adolescent male-female interaction; affection between the sexes; affection, same-sex display of; age-grades; age-sets; altruism; associations; attachment, primary; attractiveness; avoidance relationships; betrothal; boastings; bride capture; bride price; bride service; chaperons; child betrothal; concubinage; continence as a virtue; courtship; cuckoldry; deference of wife to husband; defloration customs; descent rules and groups; differential reproductive success; divorce; double standard in sexaul behaviour; dowry; elderly; elopement; endogamy; exogamy; family; family life; family sleeping arrangements; fathers attending births; female seclusion; fictive kin; fitness; foreplay; friendship, adult; gift exchange; household; human relationships, evolution of; husband-wife eating arrangements; husband-wife joint work activities; husband-wife leisure; husband-wife relationships; husband-wife sleeping arrangements; hypergamy; impotence; incest taboo; jealousy between co-wives; jealousy between male and females; joking relationships; kin selection; kinship; kinship terminology; levirate; love magic; male-female hostility; male-female interaction; male-female status, relative; male sexual aggression; marriage; marriage, arranged; marriage, cousin; marriage, trial; marriage age; marriage ceremonies; marriage flexibility; marriage forms; marriage partners, criteria for choosing; marriage partners, selection of; men's houses; menstrual taboos; modesty; natural selection; newleyweds; parents-in-law; pregnancy, premarital; promiscuity; prostitution; rape; reproductive strategies; residence rules; respect relationships; romantic love; segregation of children from parents; segregation of sexes in childhood; sex, attitudes toward; sex, extramarital; sex, frequency of; sex, initiative in; sex, premarital; sex, talk about; sex, techniques for initiating; sex taboo, postpartum; sex taboos; sex training in childhood; sexual behaviour, same-sex; sexual partners, first; sexual receptivity; sexual relations, patterns of; sexual relations, privacy in; sexual selection; sleep-crawing; sororate; spousebeating; transvestism; virginity; wedding night; widow remarriage; widower remarriage; wife sharing; woman exchange.

About the Author

Gwen Broude

Gwen J. Broude, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Vassar College, New York.

Reviews

"A useful addition to almost any public or academic library seeking to expand a collection on family and relationships with a book that adds multicultural and sociobiological coverage." - Library Journal

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