Author/Editor		Skušek, Z
Title		Ritualne oblike očetovskega vedenja: antropologija in kuvada
Translated title		Ritual forms of fatherly behaviour - Anthropology and the couvade
Type		članek
Source		Soc Delo
Vol. and No.		Letnik 33, št. 4
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 293-9
Language		slo
Abstract		The couvade - "father's behaviour related to the birth of a child"- is an exceptionally interesting institution for the research of fatherhood, and anthropology has always been concerned with it; the interpretation of this institution is a sort of signpost for the development of anthropological thought. The author reviews the most important interpretations, starting with Tylor's from 1865, and then in particular two significant influences in anthropological thought: the theory of an Oxonian anthropologist, Peter Riviere, who advocates the thesis of double birth, corporal (mother) and spiritual (father), and the theory of a French anthropologist, Patric Menget, who relates the couvade with the prohibition of the incest, the former regulating the internal linkage of a social group and the latter constituting its external linkage.
Descriptors		PATERNAL BEHAVIOR DELIVERY