Mating structure in the Dogon population in the Tabi Massif
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5958692 |
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| Authors | Marie-Hélène Cazes (Institut national d'études démographiques, corresponding author), M H Cazes, Albert Jacquard (Institut national d'études démographiques) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 281-292 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biodemography and Social Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-5565 • E-ISSN: 1948-5573 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19485565.1981.9988464 |
| PMID | 7349702 |
| OpenAlex | W1976578905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
The traditional structures influencing mate choice in a small isolated African population and their influence on actual marriages observed were studied to determine if the marriage rules caused marriages to diverge from the distribution expected if mating were random. The results tend to indicate that the marriage rules of the Dogon have in all probability no repercussion on the group's biological kinship. The real constraints are of a demographic nature, since the frequency of each cousin type and the relative age differences between potential spouses play a major role in the actual frequency of each marriage type
Biology · Cousin · Demographic economics · Economics · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · Mating · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · History · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Genetics
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 1995 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |