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Poly partnerships have always existed. A new generation of activists is fighting to protect them and their families from ...
Marriage in West Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society and has evolved over time. While traditional heterosexual unions dominate discussions, a lesser-known but ...
CU Boulder anthropologist Kathryn Goldfarb spearheads new book that examines the difficult aspects of family connection. Historically, anthropologists defining kinship tended to begin with who people ...
HISTORYFor several centuries - especially from the 16th to the early 20th century - Europe’s royal families were deeply ...
Bettina Beer, Cross-Sex Siblingship and Marriage: Transformations of Kinship Relations among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea, Anthropologica, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2015), pp. 211-224 ...
La Jolla Playhouse recently opened a production of Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." Set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, the story explores love, family ...
In books like “My Marriage Sabbatical,” “All Fours” and “Consider Yourself Kissed,” women carve out a place between marriage and divorce.
Marriage in west Africa has played a central role in shaping aspects of society, and has evolved over time. While traditional heterosexual unions dominate discussions, a lesser-known but ...
Tradition rooted in kinship and social stability. Using a combination of oral interviews, archival research and literature reviews, I found that there are various scenarios in which woman-to-woman ...