Dominique Legros is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from the University of Paris X (M.A.) and from the University of British Columbia, Canada (Ph.D.). Since 1972, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Yukon Territory among the Northern Tutchone Athapaskan Indians. He is the author numerous articles and of several books; among them Tommy McGinty's Northern Tutchone Story of Crow: A First Nation Elder Recounts the Creation of the World. Canadian Museum of Civilisation; Oral History as History: Tutchone Athapaskan in the Period 1840-1920. Hudę Hudän Series, Yukon History No. 3. Yukon, 2 vols. He has been a president of the Canadian Anthropology Society.

• Chapter 1. In Praise of Exotopy.- Chapter 2. Monogamy? Exoticizing a 3000 Year Old Pre-Christian Western Tradition.- Chapter 3. Mistress, Concubine, Spouse, Lover or Paramour? The Need for a Cross-Culturally Valid Definition of Marriage.- Chapter 4. Anthropologizing Traditional Marriage in France.- Chapter 5. Legislating Polygyny and Polyandry in Mainstream France.- Chapter 6. The Geographical Extent of Western Mainstream Polygamy: Europe, North America, and Latin America.- Chapter 7. Constraints in Cultural Engineering, Exotopic Observation and Truth.

Dominique Legros is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from the University of Paris X (M.A.) and from the University of British Columbia, Canada (Ph.D.). Since 1972, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Yukon Territory among the Northern Tutchone Athapaskan Indians. He is the author numerous articles and of several books; among them Tommy McGinty's Northern Tutchone Story of Crow: A First Nation Elder Recounts the Creation of the World. Canadian Museum of Civilisation; Oral History as History: Tutchone Athapaskan in the Period 1840-1920. Hudę Hudän Series, Yukon History No. 3. Yukon, 2 vols. He has been a president of the Canadian Anthropology Society.

• Chapter 1. In Praise of Exotopy.- Chapter 2. Monogamy? Exoticizing a 3000 Year Old Pre-Christian Western Tradition.- Chapter 3. Mistress, Concubine, Spouse, Lover or Paramour? The Need for a Cross-Culturally Valid Definition of Marriage.- Chapter 4. Anthropologizing Traditional Marriage in France.- Chapter 5. Legislating Polygyny and Polyandry in Mainstream France.- Chapter 6. The Geographical Extent of Western Mainstream Polygamy: Europe, North America, and Latin America.- Chapter 7. Constraints in Cultural Engineering, Exotopic Observation and Truth.

Dominique Legros is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from the University of Paris X (M.A.) and from the University of British Columbia, Canada (Ph.D.). Since 1972, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Yukon Territory among the Northern Tutchone Athapaskan Indians. He is the author numerous articles and of several books; among them Tommy McGinty's Northern Tutchone Story of Crow: A First Nation Elder Recounts the Creation of the World. Canadian Museum of Civilisation; Oral History as History: Tutchone Athapaskan in the Period 1840-1920. Hudę Hudän Series, Yukon History No. 3. Yukon, 2 vols. He has been a president of the Canadian Anthropology Society.

• Chapter 1. In Praise of Exotopy.- Chapter 2. Monogamy? Exoticizing a 3000 Year Old Pre-Christian Western Tradition.- Chapter 3. Mistress, Concubine, Spouse, Lover or Paramour? The Need for a Cross-Culturally Valid Definition of Marriage.- Chapter 4. Anthropologizing Traditional Marriage in France.- Chapter 5. Legislating Polygyny and Polyandry in Mainstream France.- Chapter 6. The Geographical Extent of Western Mainstream Polygamy: Europe, North America, and Latin America.- Chapter 7. Constraints in Cultural Engineering, Exotopic Observation and Truth.