ANT 2130 Lecture 12: March 13

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 2130
• Professor: Kristen Tole

Document Summary

Changing social institutions: religious institutions getting involved, family. Do individuals bring that and do you have a connection to your peers. Cultural values: how is culture going to take part in it. Technology: how is technology influencing divorce. Communication: communication styles and skills lost a lot of it and when there is an issue for divorce, are you actually talking to each other. Until 1867, no divorce in most of canada for any reason: marital disown of a kind but no legal divorce. Maritimes: divorce was legalized in cases of adultery (late 1700"s), nova scotia permitted divorce for cruelty as well. 1880"s special senate divorce committee required confirmation by both the. Senate and the house 9only 3 per year during 1870"s, 11 per year by 1900) Sexual double standard: divorces granted to men who could prove adultery in their wives wives had to prove husbands desertion or extreme physical or mental cruelty in addition to adultery.