George Murrdock Anthropology

Anthropologist George Murdock gathered information from studies previous anthropologist have done using hundreds of groups around the world (page 56). They compared several areas of customs. It seems that although several customs such as incest taboos, toilet training, marriage and others were in some way apart of each culture they were viewed differently. Some cultures define family different, things as simple as toilet training, disposing of the dead. All these things I have always assumed were universal, but it seems that they are not. The views on incest is the one that caught my attention the most, some cultures find it acceptable to allow fathers to marry their own daughters (Labarre 1954)(page 56), or mother's having sex with their