Beyond the taboo: Imagining incest

American Anthropologist

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 38-49

  Meigs, Anna ^a   Barlow, Kathleen ^b  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Dissociation; Incest Taboo; Innate avoidance mechanism; Trance possession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036004096     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2002.104.1.38     Document Type: Article

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