Initiation ceremonies:  a cross-cultural study of status dramatization

"The postpartum taboo on a mother's sex relations is associated with corporate family organization" (121)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of percentages	Supported	Not Applicable	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Clan Organization	Association	Localized Kin Groups
Postpartum Taboo	Association	General Sex Restrictions

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Young, Frank W.	1967	"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)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with customary polygyny" (243)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with unilineal kin groups" (244)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies with localized kin groups" (244)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Saucier, Jean-Francois	1972	"A long postpartum taboo will be more frequent in societies in which the succession of office of local headman is hereditary" (244)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author