Polygamy a cross-cultural analysis /.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford Berg 2008Description: 206 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845202201 (cloth)
  • 184520221X (pbk.)
  • 9781845202200 (cloth)
  • 9781845202217 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Forms of polygamy -- Foundations of polygamy -- Theories of polygamy -- Muslim polygyny in Malaysia -- Christian polygamy in the USA -- Hindu polyandry in India -- Polygamy and gender -- Polygamy and modernity -- Polygamy in contemporary societies.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 120.677 ASE Available 7729556-10

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and indexes.

Forms of polygamy -- Foundations of polygamy -- Theories of polygamy -- Muslim polygyny in Malaysia -- Christian polygamy in the USA -- Hindu polyandry in India -- Polygamy and gender -- Polygamy and modernity -- Polygamy in contemporary societies.