The Tâlesh population is divided between Twelver Shi'a and Shafi'ite Sunnis. Here, the relations between the two 'communities' are harmonious and interfaith marriage is frequent. Family descent in Tâlesh is patrilineal (property, name and social status are transmitted along paternal lines) but the transmission of religious affiliation differs from that of property and social status and is governed, in the words of Meyer Fortes, by 'complementary descent': boys will adopt the religious affiliation of the father and girls that of the mother. So confessional affiliation is bilinear. However, there are exceptions that are as often linked to specific context as they may be to personal 'choice'.
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In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2014
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- 83–88 (6 total)
Magdalena Rodziewicz
In recent years in Iran some forms of gender relations typical for a traditional society have undergone significant transformation. 1 One such change concerns marriage, whose dynamics involve modifications in the family structure and redefinition
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 50–63 (14 total)
Jane Bristol-Rhys
Marriage has become an expensive proposition in the United Arab Emirates, so much so that it is used by some Emirati men as justification for marrying someone outside Emirati society. This article examines the changes in Emirati weddings over the last 30 years, presents a synopsis of the public discussion of Emirati marriages, and considers how the carefully contained public discussion deflects the comprehensive changes that have transformed Emirati society.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2007
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- Research Article
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- 20–36 (17 total)
Rachel Mesch
This article considers the role of men in a form of feminist expression promoted in women's magazines and novels during the Belle Epoque. “Belle Epoque literary feminism,“ as I have termed it, was characterized by a desire to reconcile gender equality with traditional gender roles, outside of political channels; it was also, I argue, defined by male participation. Focusing on a widespread effort to modernize marriage, the article examines both men and women's discussions of marital equality in the influential women's magazines Femina and La Vie Heureuse; it then considers the role assigned to men in realizing feminist marriage in two popular women's novels, Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle and Louise Marie Compain's L'Un vers l'autre.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 85–106 (22 total)
Philippine Prison Marriages
The Politics of Kinship and Women's Composite Agency
Sif Lehman Jensen
conflict and precariousness that permeates their everyday lives. The prison marriages enable the women both to insert themselves in the city and to respond to norms and questions of morality, which are socially and politically embedded in the home
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 18–33 (16 total)
Native Marriage “Soviet” and “Russian” Style
The Political Economy of Desire and Competing Matrimonial Emotions
Vera Skvirskaja
This article proposes an alternative perspective on the debate on “native families,” and marriage strategies and choices, among rural Nenets on the Yamal Peninsula in Arctic Siberia. 1 It departs from the common narrative put forward by both
“To take a wyf”
Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in “The Merchant’s Tale”
Natalie Hanna
Chaucer’s “The Merchant’s Tale” approaches the subjects of marriage, status, and moral conduct in the style of fabliau, using humor and satire to consider some more tangible fears of the medieval period. 1 Such concerns within marriage include
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 61–74 (14 total)
The Paradoxical Agora
The Social and the Political in between the People in the Marriage Corners of China
Jean-Baptiste Pettier
. The place depicted is a ‘marriage corner’, a public space where people congregate in search of a match. On one side of the gathering are notices, pegged to a string suspended from a row of thin bamboo stems. The notices may be stylishly handwritten or
Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation
Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgement in India
Anindita Chakrabarti, K. C. Mujeebu Rahman, and Suchandra Ghosh
Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act (MWA) was passed. This act turned instant divorce, now invalid, into a criminal offence. This article dwells on the trajectory of Muslim personal law reform since the Shah Bano case in the mid-1980s and
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- 24–48 (25 total)
Left in the Cold
The Mirage of Marriage and Family Law Reform in Post-Colonial Mali
Bruce Whitehouse
states intending to modernise family life and marriage. Their emphasis on natural rights and equality traced back to the Enlightenment era via France's Napoleonic Code of 1804 ( Kombo 2021 ). Roger Decottignies, a French jurist and founding dean of the
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 73–94 (22 total)