The Meaning of Marriage Customs Hidden in the ConflictStructure of <Jeongeulseonjeon>-Based on the printed version of Bakmunseogwan-

Opinions on early-age marriage and marriage customs among Kurdish-speaking women in southeast Turkey

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care ◽

10.1783/147118908784734927 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 147-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Meliksah Ertem ◽

Tahire Kocturk

Keyword(s):

Early Age ◽

Marriage Customs

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Gender Relationships, Matching, and Marriage Customs in an Irish Rural Community

Folk Life ◽

10.1179/043087710x12610655423564 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 13-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margaret Humphreys

Keyword(s):

Rural Community ◽

Marriage Customs

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Declaring Kinship – Some Remarks on the Indeterminate Relation between Commensality and Kinship in Western Kenya

Sociologus ◽

10.3790/soc.70.2.143 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 143-158

Author(s):

Sebastian Schellhaas ◽

Mario Schmidt ◽

Gilbert Francis Odhiambo

Keyword(s):

Social Practices ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Western Kenya ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Ethnographic Data ◽

Marriage Customs

Based upon ethnographic fieldwork in Western Kenya, this article re-evaluates the widespread assumption that commensality constructs or, at least, earmarks kin or kin-like relations. In contrast to such generalizations, our ethnographic data suggests that the relation between kinship and social practices such as eating together is culturally not predetermined in Western Kenya. This understanding of the relation between social practices and kinship as indeterminate allows the inhabitants of Kaleko, a small marketplace in Western Kenya, to use different and conflicting strategies of ‘declaring kin’. These conflicting strategies include assertions of biological kinship, refusals to clarify the specific kin-relation and evocations of love and care. Understanding kinship as an effect of strategic practices of individuals and not of cultural norms or social practices has analytical repercussions for an analysis of marriage customs and infertility.

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