Dear colleagues,
We invite paper proposals to our panel, *Marriage-making among Romani
populations: Practices, imaginaries and economies
<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8779#>, *at the EASA
Conference in Lisbon, 21-24 July 2020.
The panel explores the practices and meanings that underpin marriage
processes among Roma populations, and invites papers that take Roma marital
practices as their unit of analysis, so as to explore how alliance-making
processes contribute to Roma social organisation across times and places.Once
a ubiquitous anthropological preoccupation, marriage has faded away from
recent disciplinary thinking (but seems to be returning with the ongoing
research project 'A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage' led by
Janet Carsten), and has been subsumed under various other rubrics:
sexualities, bodies, or affect. However, marriage continues to be an
essentially political process, that speaks both to affects and cosmologies,
and to social organisation and reproduction. This is especially salient in
societies that attach ritual elaboration to the institution of marriage,
such as Romani populations, against the dislocation of matrimonial rituals
and strategies in broader society. Whether because they are concluded by
arrangement, and/or conducted between minors, sometimes taking the form of
intermarriage, or because of the wealth displayed at weddings, Roma
marriages remain as controversial as they are misunderstood. This panel
takes Roma alliance-making as a heuristic device through which to rethink
what marriage means to people in different societies, and how it brings
together and separates individuals, communities, and the state. We invite
ethnographic papers that take Roma marital practices as their unit of
analysis, and tackle conceptually and comparatively issues central to
Romani studies and beyond, such as temporalities, autonomy of persons and
egalitarianism, semiotics of gender, and the reproduction of communities
among populations that push for their assimilation. We explore how marriage
processes contribute to Roma social organisation across times and places,
by teasing out meanings, practices, economic and political processes that
shape Roma marriages and what these convey about the world at large.
We very much look forward to receiving your abstracts,
Ana and Cătălina
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