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Name
J. Unwin
Died
1936
Joseph Daniel Unwin MC (1895 — 1936) was an English ethnologist and social anthropologist at Oxford University and Cambridge University.
In Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and 6 known civilizations through 5,000 years of history and found a positive correlation between the cultural achievement of a people and the sexual restraint they observe. Aldous Huxley described Sex and Culture as "a work of the highest importance".
According to Unwin, after a nation becomes prosperous it becomes increasingly liberal with regard to sexual morality and as a result loses its cohesion, its impetus and its purpose. The effect, says the author, is irrevocable. Unwin also wrote that equality between women and men is necessary for absolute monogamy.
Works
Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour. London: Williams & Norgate ltd., 1933.
Sex and Culture. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
The Scandal of Imprisonment for Debt. London: Simpkin Marshall Limited, 1935.
Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behaviour. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
Sex Compatibility in Marriage. New York: Rensselaer, 1939.
Hopousia: Or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society, with and introduction by Aldous Huxley. New York: Oskar Piest, 1940.
Our Economic Problems and Their Solution (An Extract from "Hopousia.") London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1944.
Selected articles
"Monogamy as a Condition of Social Energy,” The Hibbert Journal, Vol. XXV, 1927.
"The Classificatory System of Relationship," Man, Vol. XXIX, Sep., 1929.
"Kinship," Man, Vol. XXX, Apr., 1930.
"Reply to Dr. Morant's 'Cultural Anthropology and Statistics'," Man, Vol. XXXV, Mar., 1935.
Other
Dark Rapture: The Sex-life of the African Negro, with an Introduction by J. D. Unwin. New York: Walden Publication, 1939.
