Carsten, J and Chiu, H-C and Magee, S and Papadaki, E and Reece, K.M (Eds).
(2021)
Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Marriage globally is undergoing profound change, provoking widespread public comment and concern. Through the close ethnographic examination of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense places new and changing forms of marriage in comparative perspective as a transforming and also transformative social institution. In conditions of widespread socio-political inequality and instability, how are the personal, the familial and the political co-produced? How do marriages encapsulate the ways in which memories of past lives, present experience and imaginaries of the future are articulated? Exploring the ways that marriage draws together and distinguishes history and biography, ritual and law, economy and politics in intimate family life, this volume examines how familial and personal relations, and the ethical judgements they enfold, inform and configure social transformation. Contexts that have been partly shaped through civil wars, cold war and colonialism – as well as other forms of violent socio-political rupture – offer especially apt opportunities for tracing the interplay between marriage and politics. But rather than taking intimate family life and gendered practice as simply responsive to wider socio-political forces, this work explores how marriage may also create social change. Contributors consider the ways in which marital practice traverses the domains of politics, economics and religion, while marking a key site where the work of linking and distinguishing those domains is undertaken.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800080386 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800080386 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080386 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2021 Text © Contributors, 2021 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2021 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ 4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Carsten, J., Chiu, H-C., Magee, S., Papadaki, E. and Reece, K.M. (eds). 2021. Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/ 111.9781800080386 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | marriage, anthropology, kinship, ethnography |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133292 |
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