Forbidden Intimacies

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Forbidden Intimacies

Melanie Heath
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A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "Other"

In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance.

These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., organize to fight against the prohibition of their families' existence, whereas...

Рік:
2022
Видавництво:
Stanford University Press
Мова:
english
ISBN:
27FD1DE7-BD3C-4E65-B386-CA85AD1B1538
Файл:
AZW3 , 843 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2022
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