TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Sarah
TI  - The importance of being monogamous: marriage and nation building in Western Canada to 1915 
T2  - A volume in The West unbound : social and cultural studies series, edited by Alvin Finkel and Sarah Carter
AV  - HQ560.15.W4 C37 2008eb
U1  - 306.84/2209712 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
PB  - The University of Alberta Press
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Canada, Western
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Monogamous relationships
KW  - Indian women
KW  - Mormons
KW  - Mariage
KW  - Canada (Ouest)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Monogamie
KW  - Indiennes d'Amérique
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Marriage & Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Native peoples
KW  - csh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - rvm
KW  - Autochtones
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; ONE: Creating, Challenging, Imposing, and Defending the Marriage "Fortress"; TWO: Customs Not in Common: THE MONOGAMOUS IDEAL AND DIVERSE MARITAL LANDSCAPE OF WESTERN CANADA; THREE: Making Newcomers to Western Canada Monogamous; FOUR: "A Striking Contrast ... Where Perpetuity of Union and Exclusiveness is Not a Rule, at Least Not a Strict Rule": PLAINS ABORIGINAL MARRIAGE; FIVE: The 1886 "Traffic in Indian Girls" Panic and the Foundation of the Federal Approach to Aboriginal Marriage and Divorce
N2  - Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the "one man, one woman"model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that time, and brings together the fields of Indigenous and migrant history in new and important ways
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