E Pluribus Unum
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 11 December 1997
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
by Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat.
Cambridge, 512 pp., £55, December 1996,0 521 56169 8 Show More
by Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat.
Cambridge, 512 pp., £55, December 1996,
“... here remarks, ‘plural family life is a mighty hard day-to-day struggle.’ What Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat set out to write was not a cautionary tale, but a dispassionate study of ‘a different lifestyle’ that would draw on their combined skills as social psychologist and anthropologist respectively. In other words, they are not pushing monogamy ... ”