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The Church's crusade against cousin-marriage did not create the Western nuclear family

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Emmanuel Todd gets his vengeance

Emmanuel Todd is not well known in the English speaking world. He surfaced in 1976 when in The Final Fall: an Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere he predicted the coming Soviet collapse on the basis of an unprecedented rise in the infant mortality rate between 1970 and 1974. In later work, he would outline a radical vision of anthropological particularism orthogonal to the traditional racialism. What truly distinguished the world’s major socio-politico-cultural formations, he would argue, was family structure. The Explanation of ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems…

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