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
$12.50 (AAA Members) / $15 (All others)
