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Carceral Marriages

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
This article explores cousin marriages across the UK and South Asia. It challenges studies that depict consanguineous marriages as beneficial, arguing instead that they can produce carceral conditions beyond the physical, including social and ...
Naseem Naushad Jivraj
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When sharing becomes shameful: atmospheres of class formation in Namibia Quand le partage devient honteux : ambiances de formation de classes en Namibie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
wiley   +1 more source

Are Consanguineous Marriages to Blame for Usher Syndrome Type 1, a Rare Disease in Pakistan? [PDF]

Cureus, 2020
Awan AI, Abdul Raffay E, Liaqat A, Hassan T, Khan M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mortal relationality: waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali Relationnalité mortelle : soins familiaux des waria et éthique des mourants à Bali

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
wiley   +1 more source

Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguineous marriages [PDF]

Notes and Queries
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Evaluation of Inheritance Pattern in Mentally Retarded Children

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd, 2011
Introduction: Mental retardation is one of the most important problems of general health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate inheritance pattern of mentally retarded patients in Yazd city.
F Behnaz, M Golestan, R Fallah, S Akhavan Karbasi   +3 more
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Chromosomal Breakage in Fanconi Anemia and Consanguineous Marriages: A Social Dilemma for Developing Countries. [PDF]

Cureus, 2020
Siddiqui F, Ansari S, Agha A, Nusrat N, Munzir S, Shan S, Hanifa A, Farzana T, Taj M, Borhany M, Hussain Z, Nadeem M, Shamsi T.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source