- October 05, 2022
Le berceau des dominations - anthropologie de l'inceste - Essay - Dorothée Dussy - Pocket, 2021
In this study, which is also an essay, anthropologist Dorothée Dussy examines the complex mechanisms by which incest is commonly practiced in the home. Incest is a crime that structures the social order. It is also a means of gender and class exploitation and domination. In this book, written after five years of ethnographic investigation, the researcher questions, investigates and confronts the motivations and mechanisms of incest offenders, most of whom she met while they were in detention. It's a rigorous and precise immersion from which emerges the incredible banality and frequency of sexual abuse committed against children, behind the closed and reassuring doors of the home. The author describes what incestors do to their victims, the representations they have of their practices, and what is said and not said about incest in families. She writes that "this is the principle of the incest system: to silence". A major work of anthropology that goes beyond the forbidden to delve into the reasons for its transgression, its frequency and its apparent normality for incestors. Published in 2013 to near indifference, it was aptly reissued in 2021, a sign that our society is slowly evolving and perhaps tolerating less and less that silence benefits the aggressors.
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