Campbell, Olympia Louise Kathleen;
(2024)
Cousin Marriage, Honour, and Violence
Against Women: A Cross-Cultural and
Behavioural Ecological Approach.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Violence against women has been prevalent in societies throughout history and continues to be common today. However, rates of violence have varied over time and across cultures, with certain parts of the world experiencing higher levels of violence than others. Additionally, the types and perpetrators of violence against women also vary, including intimate-partner, sexual, and honourbased violence. Honour-based violence is unique, in that it tends to be perpetrated by male kin such as fathers, brothers, and uncles. While much research has focused on intimate partner and sexual violence, honour-based violence remains relatively understudied. Drawing on anthropological theory that suggests honour-related violence may be associated with cousin marriage and combining it with behavioural ecological literature on parent-offspring and sexual conflict, this thesis provides one of the first quantitative analyses on the demographic origins of honour-based violence. Support for this hypothesis varies depending on the level of analysis. While at the individual level cousin marriage appears to be protective against both intimate-partner violence and honour-based violence, at the regional or population level, cousin marriage is positively associated with the strength of an honour culture. An analysis of media reports of honour killings in Pakistan indicates that cousin marriage is not associated in this context, although this may be due to an asymptotic relationship, However, honour killings are responsive to the sex ratio, being less common where females are scarce, in line with mating market theory. Results from this thesis add to the growing literature on the evolution of patriarchy and the effects of adopting an intensive kinship structure on norms and beliefs.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Cousin Marriage, Honour, and Violence Against Women: A Cross-Cultural and Behavioural Ecological Approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193039 |
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