A Cross-Cultural Summary: Pregnancy

A Cross-Cultural Summary • HRAF Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on pregnancy and childbirth pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.

Note

Pregnancy is a section of, A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the dependent variable identification and the second is the independent variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (14)

HypothesisSupported
Societies desiring children more will tend to have patrilineal or double-descent kin groups rather than matrilineal (282, 190).Marginally Supported
Societies desiring children more will tend to have severe punishment for abortion (282, 295).Marginally Supported
Societies desiring children more will tend to have severe punishment for extramarital sexual relations (282, 393).Supported
Societies desiring children will tend to have people sensitive to insult (282, 473).Marginally Supported
Societies with severe penalties for barrenness will tend to have full-time entrepreneurs present (283, 136).Supported
Societies with severe penalties for barrenness will tend to be in Africa (283, 3).Supported
Societies with severe penalties for barrenness will tend to have restrictive or semi-restrictive sexual expression by children (283, 385).Supported
Societies practicing contraception will tend to have incipient food production or simple agriculture rather than intensive agriculture (284, 53).Supported
Societies practicing contraception will tend to have greater gender separation during adolescence (284, 366).Marginally Supported
Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to lack a high god (285, 426).Supported
Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to have independent rather than extended families (285, 236).Supported
Societies with sex taboos during pregnancy will tend to have tropical or sub-tropical natural environments (285, 42).Supported
Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to have a writing system that is mnemonic or absent (286, 77).Supported
Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to be those where people have a high fear of strangers (286, 441).Supported
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