Cousin Marriages

Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-800-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity” via new genetic technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Alison

Raz, Aviad E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz

Chapter 1. The Prevalence and Outcomes of Consanguineous Marriage in Contemporary Societies

Alan H. Bittles

Chapter 2. Risk Calculations in Consanguinity

Leo P. ten Kate, Marieke E. Teeuw, Lidewij Henneman and Martina C. Cornel

PART I: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN TRADITIONAL CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE

Chapter 3. Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman

Claire Beaudevin

Chapter 4. 'Dangerous Liaisons': Modern Bio-medical Discourses and Changing Practices of Cousin Marriage in Southeastern Turkey

Laila Prager

PART II: COUSIN MARRIAGES WITHIN MIGRANT POPULATIONS IN EUROPE

Chapter 5. British Pakistani Cousin Marriages and the Negotiation of Reproductive Risk

Alison Shaw

Chapter 6. A Cousin Marriage Equals a Forced Marriage: Transnational Marriages between Closely Related Spouses in Denmark

Anika Liversage and Mikkel Rytter

Chapter 7. Changing Patterns Of Partner Choice? Cousin Marriages Among Migrant Groups In The Netherlands

Oka Storms and Edien Bartels

PART III: CONSANGUINITY AND MANAGING GENETIC RISK

Chapter 8. Using Community Genetics for Healthy Consanguinity

Joël Zlotogora

Chapter 9. Premarital Carrier Testing and Matching in Jewish Communities

Aviad Raz

Chapter 10. Preconception Care For Consanguineous Couples in the Netherlands

Marieke E. Teeuw, Pascal Borry and Leo P. ten Kate



Afterword: The Marriages of Cousins in Victorian England

Adam Kuper



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raz, Aviad E.
Aviad E. Raz is Professor at the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University. His research focuses on how various ethnic/religious communities confront tradition and modernity, normative life process and medicalization, as well as migration and politics. He has written seven books and more than 45 articles and chapters on topics in organizational and medical sociology, anthropology, culture, and science.

Shaw, Alison
Alison Shaw is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethnicity and health; social aspects of genetics; kinship, gender and transnational marriages. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000) and Negotiating Risk: British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics (2009).

Alison Shaw is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethnicity and health; social aspects of genetics; kinship, gender and transnational marriages. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000) and Negotiating Risk: British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics (2009).