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In this episode, Laura looks at a statistic updated during the #MeTooInceste wave: one in ten French people claim to have been a victim of it during their childhood. However, since Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropology has defined incest as an absolute taboo. What can anthropology teach us about incest? Is it up to anthropology to study the practice of incest? To answer these questions, Laura calls on two generations of anthropologists: Maurice Godelier and Dorothée Dussy. “Incest is the taboo on relationships between parents and children and between brothers and sisters. The universal invariant is that marrying people who are said to be close (...) destroys the social relationships that support the family,” explains Maurice Godelier. If the theory of the incest taboo has had “such success, it is because it has a utility for the functioning of our social world: it casts a blind spot on the real practices of incest,” analyzes Dorothée Dussy. Also with Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, historian. The references cited in the episode (in their order of citation): - Maurice Godelier, The Interdiction of Incest Across Societies, CNRS, 2013 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Parenthood, EHESS, 1949 - Dorothée Dussy, The Cradle of Dominations, Anthropology of Incest, Pocket, 2013 Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social networks! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr