an anthropological perspectiveon marriage（人类学perspectiveon婚姻）.docVIP

An Anthropological Perspective on Marriage Naomi Quinn Paper prepared for the “Unions” volume Explaining Family Change and Variation Project  While the larger collective project to which this chapter contributes is designed to explain and evaluate change in marriage and other intimate unions, the research I will describe was not so designed. Rather, this research provides a way to conceptualize the cultural side of marriage, change in which typically lags behind social and institutional change. First, in this chapter, I will present a theory of culture (deve