Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

Livre 27 sur 33: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
 
9781782384922: Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
ISBN 10 : 1782384928 ISBN 13 : 9781782384922
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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).



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.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1782384928
ISBN 13 
9781782384922
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
248
Éditeur
Shaw Alison, Raz Aviad E.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1789208009 ISBN 13 :  9781789208009
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2020
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