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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Main Author: Legros, Dominique, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2014]
Series:SpringerBriefs in anthropology. Springerbriefs in anthropology and ethics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 113 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Subjects:
Polygamy.
Polygamy -- Law and legislation.
Monogamous relationships.
Anthropology.
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.

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