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The History of Human Marriage
The second edition
AuthorEdvard Westermarck
SubjectMarriage
Publication date
1891
Media typePrint
Pages670 (2012 Forgotten Books edition)
ISBN978-1297574238

The History of Human Marriage is an 1891 book by the Finnish philosopher and anthropologist Edvard Westermarck that provides an overview of marriage over time.[1]

The Finnish philosopher Jaakko Hintikka calls the work a monumental study and a classic in its field, but notes that it is now antiquated.[2]

  1. ^ Blankenhorn 2007. pp. 9-10.
  2. ^ Hintikka 2005. p. 303.

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