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{{Short description|British anthropologist}}
'''Joseph Daniel Unwin''' [[Military Cross|MC]] (1895 — 1936) was an [[English people|English]] ethnologist and social anthropologist at [[Oxford University]] and [[Cambridge University]].▼
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▲'''Joseph Daniel Unwin''' [[Military Cross|MC]] (6 December 1895 — August 1936) was an [[English people|English]] ethnologist and social anthropologist at [[Oxford University]] and [[Cambridge University]].
[[File:J. D. Unwin.png|thumb|J. D. Unwin]]
[[File:J-D-UNWIN c1917.png|thumb|J. D. Unwin, Captain (Northamptonshire Regiment), {{Circa|1917}}]]
== Biography ==
Unwin was born on December 6, 1895, in [[Haverhill, Suffolk]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School|Shewsbury School]]. His enrolment at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] was interrupted by the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914. He served in the [[Northamptonshire Regiment]] and the [[Tank Corps (United Kingdom)|Tank Corps]], where he was twice wounded and awarded the [[Military Cross]]. After the war, he spent some years in [[Abyssinia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=8 August 1936 |title=Obituary – J.D. Unwin |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/138234b0.pdf |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=138 |issue=3484 |page=234|doi=10.1038/138234b0 }}</ref>
In 1933, Unwin received his PhD in [[anthropology]] at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]]. His thesis was titled "Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behaviour". He expanded on his research in his 1934 book ''[[Sex and Culture]]''.<ref name=":0" />
Unwin also conducted research work for the [[Home Office]] on the imprisonment of debtors, publishing "Imprisonment for Debt" in 1935. His expertise in social conditions and problems led to his appointment as head of [[Cambridge House (organisation)|Cambridge House]], a social settlement in South London.<ref name=":0" />
Unwin died in August 1936, at the age of 40, following an unsuccessful medical operation.<ref name=":0" />
== Contributions to anthropology ==
In ''[[Sex and Culture]]'' (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and
According to Unwin, after a nation becomes [[Prosperity|prosperous]], it becomes increasingly liberal concerning [[Sexual ethics|sexual morality]]. It thus loses its cohesion, impetus, and purpose, which he claims is irrevocable.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Unwin |first=J. D. |year=1927 |title=Monogamy as a Condition of Social Energy |journal=[[The Hibbert Journal]] |volume=25 |pages=662}}</ref>
Unwin also stated, "In the past, too, the greatest energy has been displayed only by those societies which have reduced their sexual opportunity to a minimum by the adoption of absolute monogamy [...]. In every case the women and children were reduced to the level of legal nonentities, sometimes also to the level of chattels, always to the level of mere appendages of the male estate. Eventually they were freed from their disadvantages, but at the same time the sexual opportunity of the society was extended. Sexual desires could then be satisfied in a direct or perverted manner [...]. So the energy of the society decreased, and then disappeared." He further notes, "No society has yet succeeded in regulating the relations between the sexes in such a way as to enable sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period." And thus, all societies have collapsed. His hope for the future is that, "by placing the sexes on a level of complete legal equality, and then by altering its economic and social organization in such a way as to render it both possible and tolerable for sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period," a society may flourish. However, he offers no data to support his hope.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Unwin |first=Joseph Daniel |url=http://archive.org/details/b20442580 |title=Sex and Culture |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1934 |publication-place=London: Humphrey Milford |page=431-2 |language=en}}</ref>
==Works==
* ''Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour.'' London: Williams & Norgate
* ''[[Sex and Culture]].'' London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
* ''The Scandal of Imprisonment for Debt.'' London: Simpkin Marshall
* ''Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behaviour.'' London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
* ''Sex Compatibility in Marriage.'' New York: Rensselaer, 1939.
* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049770160;view=1up;seq=9 ''Hopousia: Or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society,''] with
** ''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 Classificatory System of Relationship," ''Man,'' Vol. XXIX, Sep., 1929.
* "Kinship," ''Man,'' Vol. XXX, Apr., 1930.
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==See also==
* ''[[Sex and Culture]]'', 1934 book by J. D. Unwin
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==References==
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* Firth, Raymond (1936). "Sex and Culture," ''Africa,'' Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 126–129.
* Morant, G. M. (1935). "Cultural Anthropology and Statistics; A One-Sided Review of 'Sex and Culture'," ''Man,'' Vol. 35, pp. 34–39.
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