Marriage Matters
Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society. What does it mean to be married or not married in contemporary Uganda? Marriage Matters engag...
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| description | Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society. What does it mean to be married or not married in contemporary Uganda?
Marriage Matters engages with new and classic anthropological theory, gender studies, marriage, relatedness and temporality. Through rich empirical cases, the book examines how partnership, kinship, child filiation and friendship are changing in Uganda, as are ideas about love and commitment, and in doing so contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on marriage and partnership structures in anthropology and beyond.
This volume presents collaborative ethnographies that brings together the voices of scholars from Uganda and Europe to discuss how Ugandan realities are changing and how anthropology has changed as well. Geographically, the volume covers Northern Uganda, affected by long years of civil conflict, and relatively peaceful Eastern Uganda that nevertheless shares many similar social and economic conditions with Northern Uganda. These two different contexts provide a special opportunity to consider the dynamics between marriage, violence, love, commitment, economics and politics. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1629392025-07-21T05:02:11Z Marriage Matters Meinert, Lotte Obika, Julaina A. Schneidermann, Nanna Marriage;partnership;Uganda;bride wealth;weddings;love;belonging;gender;generation;child filiation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society. What does it mean to be married or not married in contemporary Uganda? Marriage Matters engages with new and classic anthropological theory, gender studies, marriage, relatedness and temporality. Through rich empirical cases, the book examines how partnership, kinship, child filiation and friendship are changing in Uganda, as are ideas about love and commitment, and in doing so contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on marriage and partnership structures in anthropology and beyond. This volume presents collaborative ethnographies that brings together the voices of scholars from Uganda and Europe to discuss how Ugandan realities are changing and how anthropology has changed as well. Geographically, the volume covers Northern Uganda, affected by long years of civil conflict, and relatively peaceful Eastern Uganda that nevertheless shares many similar social and economic conditions with Northern Uganda. These two different contexts provide a special opportunity to consider the dynamics between marriage, violence, love, commitment, economics and politics. 2025-07-18T05:02:30Z 2025-07-18T05:02:30Z 2025-07-17T12:00:28Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104264 9781787358898 9781800080386 9781800088559 9781800088566 9781800088580 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162939 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104264/1/9781800088573.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104264/1/9781800088573.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800088573 10.14324/111.9781800088573 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781787358898 9781800080386 9781800088559 9781800088566 9781800088580 277 London open access |
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| topic | Marriage;partnership;Uganda;bride wealth;weddings;love;belonging;gender;generation;child filiation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
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