| 书目名称 | Mainstream Polygamy | | 副标题 | The Non-Marital Chil | | 编辑 | Dominique Legros | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Examines monogamy in Western cultures with a critical eye.Includes non-Western perspectives.Contextualizes the study of monogamy in the larger field of anthropology and anthropological methods and eth | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Anthropology | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 wou | | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | | 关键词 | African polygamy and Western polygamy; anthropology and postmodernism; cultural understandings of matr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8307-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-8306-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-8307-6Series ISSN 2195-0806 Series E-ISSN 2195-0814 | | issn_series | 2195-0806 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 |
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