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Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research,
Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a balanced account of its complications and conflicts.
List of contents
A Note to Residents of Angel Park
Acknowledgments
1. Plural Marriage and What It Means to Be Human
2. Fundamentalist Polygamy: Contextual Background
3. In the Name of the Father: Public Adoration Private Qualification
4. Different Philosophies for Organizing a Family
5. Placement Marriage or Self Choice: Finding Your Soul Mate
6. Managing a Marriage: Expectation, Duty, and Preference
7. Cowife Jealousy, Regret, and Cooperative Exchanges
8. Family Politics Revealed Through Naming Practices
9. Theology and Mother Care: Full-Sibling and Half-Sibling Bonding
10. Theological Parenthood and the Making of the Good Polygamous Teenager
11. The Lonely World of Polygamous Men
Conclusion: Themes and Trends
Notes
References
Index
About the author
William R. Jankowiak is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account (1993) as well as the editor of Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? (1995) and Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures (2008), all from Columbia University Press, among other books.
Summary
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a balanced account of its complications and conflicts.
