Comments on: SELECT explanation FROM gay-marriage ORDER BY awesomeness http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BJG http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-533675 BJG Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:55:02 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1400#comment-533675 Yes, the Beyond Marriage link is certainly worthwhile, thanks. Thanks also for the link to the Godelier review. My institution helpfully doesn’t subscribe to the journal (!), but I did find it reproduced here - http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fd4e3ea7-ea15-43e7-8275-dc2a36a9b2fe if that’s helpful to anyone. The pdf is in the ‘Downloads’ box on the right-hand side. I’ll be giving it a read this afternoon. Yes, the Beyond Marriage link is certainly worthwhile, thanks.

Thanks also for the link to the Godelier review. My institution helpfully doesn’t subscribe to the journal (!), but I did find it reproduced here – http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fd4e3ea7-ea15-43e7-8275-dc2a36a9b2fe if that’s helpful to anyone. The pdf is in the ‘Downloads’ box on the right-hand side. I’ll be giving it a read this afternoon.

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]]> By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-533473 MTBradley Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:22:24 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1400#comment-533473 Thanks for the suggestions! BeyondMarriage.org really is years ahead of its time. And I had not encountered Katherine Holden's work. I found her homepage at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/history/staff_kholden.shtml and skimmed a couple of her articles—good, non-derivative stuff. I also wanted to take the opportunity to again push Robert Barnes' review essay of Maurice Godelier's recent book: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=412728 Thanks for the suggestions! BeyondMarriage.org really is years ahead of its time. And I had not encountered Katherine Holden’s work. I found her homepage at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/history/staff_kholden.shtml and skimmed a couple of her articles—good, non-derivative stuff.

I also wanted to take the opportunity to again push Robert Barnes’ review essay of Maurice Godelier’s recent book: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=412728

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]]> By: jay sosa http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-533464 jay sosa Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:55:23 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1400#comment-533464 Thanks BJG, for the guardian article. It's true, there are whole ranges of relationships that aren't included in a romantic/sexual definition of marriage (be it same or opposite 'sex' or even polyamorous). I would recommend a look at BeyondMarriage.org. I'm not sure it's been updated in three years, but it's so ahead of the times, it doesn't need to be. Thanks BJG, for the guardian article. It’s true, there are whole ranges of relationships that aren’t included in a romantic/sexual definition of marriage (be it same or opposite ‘sex’ or even polyamorous).

I would recommend a look at BeyondMarriage.org. I’m not sure it’s been updated in three years, but it’s so ahead of the times, it doesn’t need to be.

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]]> By: BJG http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-533451 BJG Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:22:15 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1400#comment-533451 That’s very true, although there is also the opposite situation where marriage might exclude someone from a particular benefit. Tangentially again the issue of privilege given to marriage was discussed from a friendship angle in the Guardian this weekend - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/single-marriage-asexual I heard Katherine Holden present her work on singleness in a conference last year, so it was interesting to see her talking about it from a much more personal angle. That’s very true, although there is also the opposite situation where marriage might exclude someone from a particular benefit.
Tangentially again the issue of privilege given to marriage was discussed from a friendship angle in the Guardian this weekend – http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/single-marriage-asexual
I heard Katherine Holden present her work on singleness in a conference last year, so it was interesting to see her talking about it from a much more personal angle.

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]]> By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2008/11/24/select-explanation-from-gay-marriage-order-by-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-533445 MTBradley Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:13:55 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1400#comment-533445 Only tangentially about your post, but why do married people have rights that unmarried people don't? I must say that it puzzles me that somehow in the course of discussing gay marriage the economic aspects of the institution either get glossed over completely or get "emotionalized". "Isn't it horrible that we live in a country where two people living in a committed partnership can't take part in a group health plan?" Umm, isn't it horrible that we live in a country where you have to be married to get health insurance? Only tangentially about your post, but why do married people have rights that unmarried people don’t? I must say that it puzzles me that somehow in the course of discussing gay marriage the economic aspects of the institution either get glossed over completely or get “emotionalized”. “Isn’t it horrible that we live in a country where two people living in a committed partnership can’t take part in a group health plan?” Umm, isn’t it horrible that we live in a country where you have to be married to get health insurance?

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