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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Legros, Dominique (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Σειρά:SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, 2
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.