Mutual Aid · Character
Edvard Westermarck
Finnish anthropologist, cited on the history of human marriage and morality.
minor
Also known as Prof. Westermarck, Westermarck
First appearance: iii mutual aid among savages
Edvard Westermarck shows up with force in VII: The Origin of the Family. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Critiqued as a leading advocate of the patriarchal family theory; his arguments from primate behavior are dismissed as insufficient.
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