Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284
For The Wild
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The Origins of Monogamy
i'm from the united states, but i now live in canada. And so i've had some opportunity to think a lot about the interconnections in the way that colonialism happened between the two nation states. So yow, there's a lot of lessons of colonization, i think, taken between the two countries. The project was to make good citizens. Indians, cot and quote, were standing in the way of that. You had a real drive to a up the collective indigenous land base into private property and private allotments. Part of making the nuclear family is to promote the idea of state sanction marriage.
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