Westermarck

[wes-ter-mahrk, ves-tuhr-mahrk]

noun

1. Edward Alexander 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.

Example Sentences

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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