A View from Anthropology

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine

“…Understanding relations between solo living, care politics and vulnerability thus also testifies to another anthropological testimony essential to the solo living research, namely that living alone is not merely a reflection of an inherent, human thrift for autonomy or freedom (cf. Coleman 2014). Vulnerability understood as a generalized fact of life in many ways marks the limits of individualism (Butler 2020;Meinert 2021), emphasizing that solo living is a political and social accomplishment sustained by care.…”

Taming the Unruly Public Policy Horse in Private International Law in Family Law: A Pragmatic Singaporean Approach to the Recognition of Foreign Same-Sex Marriages and Divorces

“…to polygamous couples, be it through the recognition of the divorce or marriage. Despite this, English Courts continued to recognise marriages that are against public policy for limited purposes such as legitimacy, 206 property rights, 207 and nullity of subsequent marriages in the forum. 208 Before the introduction of an amendment to the Matrimonial Causes Act in 1965 209 , and, later, the promulgation of the English Matrimonial Proceedings (Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972 ("Polygamous Marriages Act"), which was incorporated into the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, the English Courts followed Hyde v Hyde's authority and denied relief to polygamous and potentially polygamous marriages under English matrimonial law.…”