[UA] TABOO

[T. McGrenery]

In imperial China, it was forbidden to marry someone with the same surname
as you. But that was the *only* regulation on the subject. So, someone
utterly unrelated to you could be off-limits, but someone much more closely
related might not.

-- Tom
[On TV tonight]
9.50: METAL GEAR SOLID NEWS - Peter Sissons hides behind a pillar and
attempts to whisper all the latest current affairs stories without alerting
a nearby guard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "mrteapot" <mrteapot at subdimension.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] TABOO


> > Actually, incest is the closest we come to a universal
> > taboo; in other  words, nearly every culture known to
> > Western science considers incest a  serious no-no.
>
> The interesting thing, though, is that who exactly qualifies
> for incest varies from culture to culture, and bears little
> relationship to actual genetic relationship.  In some
> cultures, for example, your mother's sister may not be
> considered your relative, and therefore the incest taboo
> wouldn't apply, though it would in another (like ours).
>
> Mr. Teapot
> doesn't recall much else from his single anthropolgy class
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