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Author: Janet Carsten ,
Hsiao-Chiao Chiu ,
Siobhan Magee ,
Eirini Papadaki
Publisher: UCL Press
Imprint: UCL Press
Weight: 0.430kg
ISBN: 9781800080409
ISBN 10: 1800080409
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 September 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Can marriage, under the banner of conformity and 'tradition, ' become the vehicle for innovative, even radical, social change? The authors in this volume explore this provocative question through exquisitely rich ethnographic accounts of the transformational potential of marriage in diverse cultures across the globe. They beautifully illuminate the subtle work of 'ordinary ethics' through which people reimagine and reshape the contours of the normative expectations that ricochet through the worlds of individuals, families and nations. --Susan McKinnon, University of Virginia
"""Can marriage, under the banner of conformity and 'tradition, ' become the vehicle for innovative, even radical, social change? The authors in this volume explore this provocative question through exquisitely rich ethnographic accounts of the transformational potential of marriage in diverse cultures across the globe. They beautifully illuminate the subtle work of 'ordinary ethics' through which people reimagine and reshape the contours of the normative expectations that ricochet through the worlds of individuals, families and nations.""--Susan McKinnon, University of Virginia"
"'Readers of Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense will find detailed ethnographic portraits of the ""ordinary ethics"" of social life as reflected, enabled and demanded by marriage. ...Papadaki's lyrical chapter on compromise among middle-class women in Athens underlines the strategic sacrifices that women make to maintain their marriages. ...Maunaguru's fascinating chapter about marriage and migration among Sri Lankan Tamils looks at particular wedding customs (such as the planting of a tree or the staging of wedding photographs) as dynamic rituals that take on new articulations, audiences, and resonances in the context of transnational marriage migration.' Journal of Anthropological Research"
Author Information
Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project at the University of Edinburgh. Siobhan Magee is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Eirini Papadaki is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project at the University of Edinburgh. Koreen M. Reece is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth.
