Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan - Affection and Mercy

Drawing on many years of fieldwork in rural Jordan, Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan provides a firsthand look at how expectations around marriage are changing for young people in the Middle East even as they are still expected to raise money for housing, bridewealth, and a wedding. Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan offers an intriguing look at the contrasts between the traditional values and social practices of rural Jordanians around marriage and the challenges and expectations of young people as their families negotiate the concept of kinship as part of the future of politics, family dynamics, and religious devotion

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: A Crisis of Marriage, A Crisis of Legitimacy?

Part I: The House: Changing Conceptions of Property and Domestic Space

1. The House

2. The Housing Market

Part II: The Proposal: Making Persons and Other Moral Agents

3. The Delegation

4. The Courthouse

Part III: The Wedding: Privatizing Joys?

5. The Feast

6. The Chastity Society

Conclusion: Affection and Mercy

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Geoffrey F. Hughes is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey F Hughes, Geoffrey F. Hughes
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780253056443
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05644-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology