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Mainstream polygamy the non-marital child paradox in the West /
This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a system imposing universal mon...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer,
[2014]
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Series: | SpringerBriefs in anthropology. Springerbriefs in anthropology and ethics.
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1 online resource (xi, 113 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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Online Access: | SpringerLink - Click here for access |
Contents:
- Chapter 1. In Praise of Exotopy
- Chapter 2. Monogamy? Exoticizing a 3000 Year Old Pre-Christian Western Tradition
- Chapter 3. Mistress, Concubine, Spouse, Lover or Paramour? The Need for a Cross-Culturally Valid Definition of Marriage
- Chapter 4. Anthropologizing Traditional Marriage in France
- Chapter 5. Legislating Polygyny and Polyandry in Mainstream France
- Chapter 6. The Geographical Extent of Western Mainstream Polygamy: Europe, North America, and Latin America
- Chapter 7. Constraints in Cultural Engineering, Exotopic Observation and Truth.