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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.
Índice: 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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monografia Rebiun16595474 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun16595474 140411s2014 -us| s |||1 0|eng d 978-1-4614-8306-9 Print) 978-1-4614-8307-6 Online) UR0365855 UPVA 997152645503706 UAM 991007643513704211 CBUC 991003518679806714 CBUC 991000726450906712 CBUC 991010406042706709 UIB (367729) CBUC 991013425349706706 CBUC 991003235439706708 CBUC 991000556119706712 UR Legros, Dominique 1946-) Mainstream polygamy Recurso electrónico] : the non-marital child paradox in the West Dominique Legros. New York, NY Springer 2014. New York, NY New York, NY Springer v. digital (XI, 113 p. 2 il. col.) v. digital (XI, 113 p. 2 il. col.) SpringerBriefs in Anthropology ISSN 2195-0806 2 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. Índice: 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. Ciencias sociales Antropología física Sociología