Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi Mohammad, McDonald Peter, Hosseini-Chavoshi Meimanat
Department of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
J Biosoc Sci. 2008 Nov;40(6):911-33. doi: 10.1017/S0021932008002782. Epub 2008 Mar 18.
Consanguineous marriage has been the culturally preferred form of marriage in Iran. This paper examines the extent to which education, urbanization and changes in modes of economic production have affected the incidence of consanguineous marriage and attitudes towards consanguineous marriages. The 2002 Iran Fertility Transition Survey conducted in the four provinces of Gilan, Sistan and Baluchistan, Yazd and West Azarbaijan provides information on the degree of relationship of marriage partners from around 6550 ever-married women aged 15-49. Attitudinal data were also obtained. Overall, the level of marriage to biological relatives ranged from 23% in Gilan to 78% in Sistan and Baluchistan. The paper finds that the practice of marriage to biological relatives has remained surprisingly resilient in the face of modernizing influences and that ethnicity, province and area of residence remain important determinants. On the other hand, attitudes have shifted towards marriage with a non-relative. Anthropological research would illuminate the processes of consanguineous marriage in Iran.
近亲结婚在伊朗一直是文化上较为推崇的婚姻形式。本文探讨了教育、城市化以及经济生产方式的变化在多大程度上影响了近亲结婚的发生率以及对近亲婚姻的态度。2002年在吉兰省、锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省、亚兹德省和西阿塞拜疆省进行的伊朗生育转变调查，提供了约6550名年龄在15至49岁之间的曾婚女性的婚姻伴侣亲属关系程度信息。同时也获取了态度数据。总体而言，与血亲结婚的比例从吉兰省的23%到锡斯坦-俾路支斯坦省的78%不等。该论文发现，尽管受到现代化影响，与血亲结婚的现象仍出人意料地具有韧性，而且种族、省份和居住地区仍然是重要的决定因素。另一方面，人们对与非亲属结婚的态度已经有所转变。人类学研究将阐明伊朗近亲结婚的过程。
