This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. Monogamy in Western cultures is analyzed from a distance, initially from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by systems that impose universal monogamy and generate annual cohorts of illegitimate children. The essay then considers the case of France in the light of one of the few cross-culturally valid anthropological definitions of marriage, which emphasizes the linkage ...
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This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. Monogamy in Western cultures is analyzed from a distance, initially from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by systems that impose universal monogamy and generate annual cohorts of illegitimate children. The essay then considers the case of France in the light of one of the few cross-culturally valid anthropological definitions of marriage, which emphasizes the linkage between matrimony and the birth-status of children.
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