By focusing on the debate about cousin marriage that unfolded over the midto late-nineteenth century in the United States, this article explores the capacity of kinship to produce difference as well as sameness, exclusion as well as inclusion. I follow the cultural logic of temperaments through which the relative value of cousin versus non-kin marriages was debated. I also examine the rhetoric that linked these contrasting forms of marriage with contrasting political formations—specifically those of ‘backward’ hierarchical monarchies and ‘progressive’ egalitarian democratic republics. This marital and political logic was countered by the political economy of race, which made evident the forms of racial exclusion that defined the boundaries of marriage, national belonging, equality, and democracy in nineteenth-century America.

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气质差异：19 世纪美国表亲婚姻不断变化的政治影响

本文通过关注 19 世纪中后期在美国展开的关于表亲婚姻的争论，探讨了亲属关系产生差异和相同、排斥和包容的能力。我遵循气质的文化逻辑，通过这种逻辑，表亲与非亲属婚姻的相对价值被辩论。我还研究了将这些对比鲜明的婚姻形式与对比鲜明的政治形式联系起来的修辞——特别是那些“落后的”等级君主制和“进步的”平等民主共和国。这种婚姻和政治逻辑遭到种族政治经济学的反对，种族排斥的形式明显地界定了 19 世纪美国的婚姻、民族归属、平等和民主的界限。