Mainstream Polygamy The Non-Marital Child Paradox In The West /

• Main Author: Legros, Dominique (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, 2
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.

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...

Table of 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.