Future of Marriage
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In their current demands, Blankenhorn points out, gay and lesbian leaders are not asking for marriage with an adjective in front of it, but marriage itself. Therefore, what marriage is and why it matters is what this debate is all about. What exactly is this institution to which gay and lesbian activists are seeking access? Why do we have it in the first place? Where did it come from? What is it for? How is it changing? These are some of the hard questions The Future of Marriage confronts.
Preface Jonathan Rauch xiIntroduction 11 What Is Marriage? 112 Prehistory 233 The River Valleys 414 The Trobriand Islands 695 What Marriage Is 916 Deinstitutionalize Marriage? 1277 Goods in Conflict 1718 Determining Marriage's Fate 213Appendix: Topics in the Anthropology of Kinship 247Acknowledgments 263Notes 265Index 317
