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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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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