Descent and Permissive Adolescent Sexuality in Two Ijo Communities
Descent and Permissive Adolescent Sexuality in Two Ijo Communities
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两个 Ijo 社区的血统和纵容青少年性行为
DOI：
10.1525/eth.1986.14.4.02a00040
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发表时间：
1986
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影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
Philip E. Leis
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作者：
M. Hollos;Philip E. Leis
The question of why some societies condone premarital sex while others restrict it has received a great deal of attention from anthropologists and psychologists, not to speak of social planners. We examine this question, and several pertinent hypotheses, with reference to data on the Ijo, a Nigerian people who reside in the Niger Delta area. We investigated two Ijo communities similar to each other in being "permissive," a descriptive category we will discuss below, but different in other respects. Our limited "controlled comparison" (Eggan 1954; Nadel 1955) offers the opportunity to analyze covariations within the same cultural idiom. On the basis of such microanalyses we can then reevaluate the conclusions drawn from cross-cultural comparisons. The restricted nature of our comparison is especially important for maintaining a "contextualized" understanding of concepts such as "lineage" and "household" (Comaroff 1980:31; Guyer 1981:104).
