ABSTRACT
Reflecting upon the trajectory of my analysis of polygamy, how it unfolded when I wrote my doctoral thesis about urban elite Malay polygamy (Koktvedgaard Zeitzen 2003), how it developed when I worked on a general book about polygamy (Koktvedgaard Zeitzen 2008), and how it is moving along new paths in my current work on North American polygamous Mormons (Koktvedgaard Zeitzen 2013), sight and insight stand out as pivotal points in the ongoing analysis. My aim was and remains to make polygamy visible, to reduce theoretical and empirical blind spots—including my own. I saw the light, as it were, in those blurry days of fieldwork, and it informed my understanding of not only polygamy but of analysis in general. For me, increasing visibility has meant increasing ability to navigate within those partially obscure domains of analysis in the making.
