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Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother’s Brother Controversy Reconsidered
Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS 
EHESS, Paris)
One of the most discussed topics in the history of anthropology has been the significance of the relationship between mother’s brother and sister’s son in patrilineal societies. However, the subject seems to have entirely faded from the hot topics of the discipline since the 1960s. We believe that, in reviewing this academic story of strange excitement and then total neglect, we can understand both some of the fundamental epistemological ...
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