Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense / / edited by Janet Carsten, Hsiao-Chiao Chiu, and 3 others.

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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Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 165 pages)
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Table of 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 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.