Historical Milestones In 1993, Judith Tucker complained about the ‘neglect of serious research’ on the family in Arab countries, which she attributed to the Orientalistic assumption that the Arab family ‘is one monolithic institution’ as opposed to
Family Life in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011
Two Women and Two Men in a Changing Time
Irene Maffi
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 60–77
Miriam Shadis
Wills and testaments have provided historians such as the late Shona Kelly Wray with access to the daily, social, and inner lives of medieval people: their ambitions, their family structures, the material conditions of their lives, their thoughts
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 77–92
Social orphans and the neblagopoluchnaia family
The cycle of child displacement in the Russian north
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
Due to profound socioeconomic and political changes in post-Soviet Russia, the number of families viewed as neblagopoluchnye and 'unfit' for bringing up their children is increasing, and so is the number of children without parental care. To protect children from the harmful influence of their 'unfit' parents and to ensure a better future for them, state agents remove children from their families placing them in residential care institutions. Yet the nature of parenting in state care, the absence of inter-generational support and the lack of networks for family support and assistance render some of these young people ill equipped to deal successfully with the difficulties and uncertainties of post-Soviet social realities. Usually the state agents hold care-leavers responsible for their maladjustment and place the former residents' children in residential care institutions. This leads to the creation of whole 'dynasties' of institutionalised individuals. This article outlines some concepts and practices of child removal, demonstrating that both are still underpinned by Soviet values. Institutional experiences as narrated by former residents illustrate the genesis of difficulties in post-institutional adjustment.
Interfaith Families
A Christian Perspective
Ulrike Dross-Gehring
Last summer, when I was asked to give the introductory talk on the theme of ‘interfaith families’ from a Christian perspective, my first reaction was: but I'm not an expert! So, I'm neither a theologian nor a sociologist, and I can't give a highly
Interfaith Families
A Muslim Perspective – Part II
Halima Krausen
I could now add my own story of how I grew up in the tension field between Protestant and Catholic family members and in the shadows of recent German history, or the years as the only Muslim teenager in my school in the 1960s, or of my years in the
Family on the Edge
Neblagopoluchnaia Family and the State in Yakutsk and Magadan, Russian Federation
Lena Sidorova and Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
This article is about a category of family, or parent(s), called in Russia neblagopoluchnaia and the ways in which the state child welfare agents reproduce and use this category in an attempt to ensure the well-being of children in Yakutsk
L'adoption internationale
Un facteur d'évolution de la morphologie familiale (1945–1985)
Yves Denéchère
, 1978), 159–168. 61 Sébastien Roux, « The Colour of Family Happiness : Adoption and the Racial Distribution of Children in Contemporary France », Social Anthropology 4 (2017) : 504–529, https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12451 . 62 « Les enfants
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 16–39
A Bar Mitzvah Year
Rethinking Ritual
Ilana Korber
’s response was a deeply emotional one. He felt that I could not begin to understand what it meant to be a circumcised man. He was not about to put a stop to a tradition he shared with his father and generations of his family. He would feel unable to bond with
From Casablanca to Houston
A Family Story
Julie Fette
connection, and Talia has her own favorites from Grandma: les boulettes au céleri, le tchatchouka , and most simply, les petits oignons . Nonetheless, I wanted to pass on to her a more historicized link to her paternal family and an understanding of their
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 32–60
Shutting Down Sex
COVID-19, Sex and the Transformation of Singledom
Lara McKenzie
. I argue that these measures were overtly couple- and family-centred, and examine the resultant disruptions to intimacy and sex for those living alone and single people. I explore how these changes relate to a possible ‘transformation of singledom
