Menstrual taboos and social rigidity

Cross-Cultural Approaches HRAF Press New Haven Published In Pages: 95-110
By Young, Frank W., Bacdayan, Albert A.

Hypothesis

"Stephens reports that the postpartum taboo tends to be bimodally distributed. On the contrary, degree of elaboration of menstrual taboos is associated with increasing length of the postpartum taboo" (104)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
tauSupportedUNKNOWN.36UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Length Of Postpartum TabooIndependentGeneral Sex Restrictions
Menstrual TabooDependentMenstruation