Janet Carsten: Marriage and the Moral Imagination, Gebunden
Marriage and the Moral Imagination
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009601047
- Item number:
- 12451261
- Volume:
- 292 Pages
- Release date:
- 31.1.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservative terms, Carsten highlights their transformative possibilities. The book argues that marriage is a close encounter with difference on the most intimate scale, carrying the seeds of social transformation alongside the trappings of conformity. Grounded in rich ethnography and the author's many decades of familiarity with Malaysia, it asks a central question: what does marriage do, and how? Exploring the implications of the everyday imaginative labour of marriage for kinship relations and wider politics, this work offers an important and highly original contribution to anthropology, family and kinship studies, sociology and Southeast Asian studies.