Edward Westermarck

Edward Westermarck (Helsinki, November 20th 1862 - Tenhola, September 3rd 1939) is a Anthropologue Finnish. Philosopher of formation, it is known in particular for its theories on the Mariage, the Exogamie and the Inceste.

Its life

Although it by its birth was very early exposed to the German culture, it rejected it, convinced that Germanic metaphysics was deep only thanks to the darkness of its reasoning. It turned in the place to the English culture and appreciated its Empirisme dominating and its eagerness to subject all the assumptions in the light of the experiments. He thus learned English and began his British visits starting from 1887, Victor Branford presented it to Martin White and he was named in 1903 professor of sociology. Colleague close to Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, it divided his time of teaching between the Université of Helsinki where it occupied a pulpit of moral Philosophie, the department of Sociologie of London (L.S.E.) where it professed the Moroccan sociology and universities in which it made during several years of the various interventions. He was also vice-chancellor of the Académie of Åbo between 1918 and 1921.

Its work

For Halsey, in the context Hobbousien of the orthogenic evolution, it was remarkable by its insatiable continuation of the truth. Eino Kaila, his/her colleague with Helsinki, known as of him that it opened the world of the English thought. During three centuries our Finnish scientific life was subordinated to the German influence. Westermarck was the first to be made a choice place by work in English expression . In France, its influence is more moderate. However, the Origin and the development of the ideas morals accepted warm welcome in the scientific community, the Journal of the debates in made an eulogistic criticism. In this work, Westermarck gives in order the great facts of humanity and clarifies a logical evolution of morals, with the crossroads in Anthropologie and Social sciences. Another work, pagan Survivances in civilization mahométane is quoted by the scholars who lean on the Islam and its Rituel S related.

Its principal Finnish works are:

Avioliiton historia . Porvoo: WSOY, 1932.
Kristinusko ja moraali . Helsinki: Otava, 1984.
Moraalin synty ja kehitys . Porvoo: WSOY, 1933.
Siveys ja kristinusko: Esitelmä . Helsinki: Ylioppilasyhdistys Prometheus, 1907.

In French:

the origin and the development of the ideas morals . Payot, 1928 1929,2 volumes in-8 Br, 731pp., 888pp. Translation of Robert Cup.
Ceremonies of the marriage in Morocco
History of the marriage., T. I-VI. Transl. of English by Arnold van Gennep. Payot, Paris, 1934-1945, 6 vol. in-8, Br.

I: Primitive promiscuity. The value of virginity.
II: Sexual attraction. Male jealousy.
III: The acquisition of a woman or a husband.
IV: Bridal ceremonies. Rites of the marriage.
V: Monogamy and polygamy. Polyandry. Marriage of group. Duration of the marriage and its dissolution.
VI: Theories of the inceste. Biological bases of the marriage.

pagan Survivals in civilization mahométane . Paris, Payot, 1935 in-8, Br., 230pp. with 74 figures in-T. French translation by Robert Cup.

In English: Wit and Wisdom in Morocco (1931)

Sources

Larousse encyclopedia colors , France Leisures 1978.
has off History Sociology in Britain- Science, Literature, and Society , by A.H. Halsey, Oxford, Oxford University Close, 2004.

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