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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Edvard
| name = Westermarck
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix = PhD
| image = File:Westermarck,_Edvard.jpg
| birth_date = 1862
| death_date = 1939
| address = Hensingfors and 8 Rockley Road, West Kensington Park, W<br />Adregoton 7, Helsingfors, Finland [1915]<br />Abo Akademi, Abo, Finland; Woodman's Cottage, Boxhill, Dorking [1919]<br />Kaskigatan 4a, Abo, Finland [1923]<br />Lonnrotsgaten 7, Helsingfors, Finland [1937]
| occupation = philosopher<br />sociologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1905.04.19
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1939 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1907 Member<br />RAI Council 1908 Member<br />RAI Council 1909 Member<br />RAI Council 1911 Member<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Member
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by Henry Balfour; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1905.03.14<br />Professor of Sociology in the University of London<br /><br />1936 HML Methods in social anthropology Delivered 27th Oct. at Royal Society<br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 – 3 September 1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo.<br /><br />The phenomenon of reverse sexual imprinting is when two people live in close domestic proximity during the first few years in the life of either one, and both become desensitised to sexual attraction, now known as the Westermarck effect, was first formally described by him in his book The History of Human Marriage (1891).<br />He has been described as "first Darwinian sociologist" or "the first sociobiologist".[1]<br />He helped found academic sociology in the United Kingdom, becoming the first professor of sociology (with Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse) in 1907 in the University of London. Other chairs he held were in Helsinki and Turku.<br />A radical free thinker for his time, he critiqued Christian institutions and Christian ideas on the grounds that they lacked foundation.<br />In the UK, his name is often spelled Edward. His sister, Helena Westermarck, was a writer and artist<br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The history of human marriage, 1891; Marriage ceremonies in Morocco, 1914; Wit and wisdom in Morocco, 1930<br /><br />1906: The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas. 2 Vol, MacMillan, London <br />1907: Siveys ja kristinusko: Esitelmä. Ylioppilasyhdistys Prometheus, Helsinki. <br />1925: The History of Human Marriage. Macmillan, London. [1891.] <br />1926: Ritual and Belief in Morocco. 2 Vol. <br />1930: Wit and Wisdom in Morocco. Routledge, London. <br />1932: Ethical Relativity. <br />1932: Avioliiton historia. WSOY, Helsinki. <br />1933: Moraalin synty ja kehitys. WSOY, Helsinki. <br />1934: Three Essays on Sex and Marriage. Macmillan, London. <br />1934: Freuds teori on Oedipuskomplexen i sociologisk belysning. Vetenskap och bildning, 45. Bonnier, Stockholm. <br />1984: Kristinusko ja moraali. Otava, Helsinki. 1919: Tapojen historiaa: Kuusi akadeemista esitelmää: Pitänyt Turussa syksyllä 1911 Edward Westermarck. 2nd edition. Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, Helsinki<br />
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