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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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
