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Westermarck

[ wes-ter-mahrk; Finnish ves-tuhr-mahrk ]

noun

  1. Ed·ward Al·ex·an·der [ed, -werd al-ig-, zan, -der, -, zahn, -, ed, -vah, r, d ah-lek-, sahn, -d, uh, r], 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.


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There she lived the life of an artist: slept in a garret, worked hard and made lifelong friendships with Helena Westermarck, Maria Wiik and Ada Thilén, whom she called målarsystrarna, her “painter sisters”.

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Certainly, there are exceptions…but the Westermarck Effect is most definitely a real thing, it has very solid scientific support, and such exceptions are exceedingly rare.

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He was adopted as a two-year-old, and she would have been a newborn, so they would have had just as much of an incest taboo as any biological siblings, thanks to the Westermarck effect.

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By Helena Westermarck, Critic and Painter ART in Finland, pictorial art, like much else in that country, is a young growth.

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She ought to read Westermarck's History of Human Marriage before she tackles Bebel's Woman.

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