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1 online resource (147 pages) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense -- 1 Go Fiwa Molao/Giving the Law: Marriage, Law and Social Change in Botswana -- 2 'You can Learn to Do It Right, or You can Learn to Do It Wrong': Marriage Counselling, Togetherness and Creative Conservatism in Lynchburg, Virginia -- 3 Marriage, Time, Affect and the Politics of Compromise in Athens -- 4 Getting Married as a Trial: Deferring Marriage in Jinmen, Taiwan |
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5 (Un)certain Futures: Rhythms and Assemblages of Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages -- 6 Marriage and Self-Fashioning in Penang, Malaysia: Transformations of the Intimate and the Political -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
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. |
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Marriage.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
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| Added Author |
Carsten, Janet.
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Chiu, Hsiao-Chiao.
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Magee, Siobhan.
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Papadaki, Eirini.
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Reece, Koreen M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carsten, Janet Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense London : UCL Press,c2021 9781800080409 |
| ISBN |
9781800080386 (electronic book) |
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1800080387 (electronic book) |
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