Mainstream Polygamy (Record no. 92145)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781461483076
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4614-8307-6
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Classification number HM545
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Subject category code JHM
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Subject category code SOC002000
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Classification number 301
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Legros, Dominique.
Relator term author.
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Title Mainstream Polygamy
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Remainder of title The Non-Marital Child Paradox In The West /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Dominique Legros.
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Extent XI, 113 p. 2 illus. in color.
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Series statement SpringerBriefs in Anthropology,
International Standard Serial Number 2195-0806 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 2
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Formatted contents note 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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Summary, etc 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 monogamy and generating annual cohorts of illegitimate children. Then, the essay considers the case of France, which, starting in the 1970’s, changed its laws regarding children born out of wedlock. Such children have now become legitimate. Unwittingly, this has allowed for polygyny or polyandry to become legal options for French males and females. The analysis is further extended to Western Europe, two Latin American nations and to the contemporary U.S.A. with its polyamory movement, where legal outcomes similar to those of France have occurred. The volume examines monogamy by using the epistemological approach that is typically used in the anthropological study of cultures other than one’s own, showing how exotic and strange the system of monogamy can look, when observed from afar, from the eyes of many non-Westerners. It gives insight into planes of the human Western experience that would normally remain invisible. Students and teachers will delight in the close-to-home debates stimulated by this evocative thought-provoking essay.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781461483069
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Uniform title SpringerBriefs in Anthropology,
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8307-6
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