AES Monograph Series, Number 6

Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya

By John Robert Shepherd 

Contents: Acknowledgments, Introduction: Sirayan Mandatory Abortion, European Exegeses:, Montesquieu and Malthus, Demographic Perspectives , Institutional Analysis, Symbolic Analysis: Sirayan Pregnancy Taboos in Comparative and Historical Context, Complementary Perspectives, The Abolition of Abortion under Dutch Rule, Conclusions, Appendixes, Freudian Perspectives Uxorilocality, Endogamy, and Male Age Grades: An Organizational Nexus, References Cited  

Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya
1995
ISBN 0-913167-71-1
iv + 100 pages
6 x 9
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