Introduction: What Can Monogamy or Polygamy Tell us About Being Human?
1. A Global History of Polygamy
2. How Do Emotions Affect People in Polygamous Relationships, Households, and Communities?
3. Who Benefits? The Material, Social, and Demographic Foundations of Polygyny
4. How Do They Get Along? Polygynous Household Dynamics
5. Polygyny and Inequality
6. Polyandry
7. Polyamory
Conclusion
Biography
Bruce Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in three African countries and is the author of two previous books, including Enduring Polygamy. His research also examines social change, politics, statecraft, and transnational migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
William Jankowiak is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of more than 126 scholarly articles and twelve books, including seven edited volumes. His research spans a wide range of topics, including urban China, Mormon polygamous families, and the cross-cultural anthropology of drug foods, labor, and romantic love.
