Sacred and profane meanings of blood and alcohol

". . . where there is a severe menstrual taboo, there is not likely to be severe insobriety in the society" (39)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Phi coefficient	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	.33	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Severe Insobriety	`UNKNOWN`	Alcoholism And Drug Addiction
Severe Menstrual Taboo	`UNKNOWN`	Menstruation

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Carroll, Michael P.	1983	"Societies characterized by community endogamy [will] be more likely than other societies to be characterized also by relatively severe menstrual taboos" (283).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Klausner, Samuel Z.	1964	". . . that where blood is considered holy, as indicated by the existence of a severe menstrual taboo, blood will tend not to be used secularly; nor will alcohol, its symbolic equivalent, tend to be drunk heavily in purely secular situations" (39)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Stephens reports that the postpartum taboo tends to be bimodally distributed. On the contrary, degree of elaboration of menstrual taboos is associated with increasing length of the postpartum taboo" (104)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1967	"Rigidity and male dominance are associated [with menstrual taboos] to about the same degree, as would be expected" (103)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author