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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

Explaining the reasons for the divorce of young couples in Western Iran: A qualitative Study from the Beneficiary's point of view. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yoosefi Lebni J, Irandoost SF, Saki M, Khosravi B, Ahmadi A.   +4 more
europepmc   +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

Same-sex love and marriage: understanding the Special Marriage Act, 1954. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gomes TC, Kanungo S, Sengupta S.
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

Self-Employment Entry Across Family Transitions: Household Capability Reallocation Over the Life Course. [PDF]

Entrep Theory Pract
Tran HT.
europepmc   +1 more source

The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Intersecting injustices: child marriage and the law in conflict-affected Sudan. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Kakal T, Elkarib AKA, Kusters L, Kok M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating genetic risk in Indonesia: Development and psychometric evaluation of the knowledge and attitude toward consanguineous marriage instrument in a mixed-methods cross-sectional study. [PDF]

J Community Genet
Amina IY, Zubaidah S, Susanto H.
europepmc   +1 more source