Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense

Abstract

Go fiwa molao/giving the law: marriage, law and social change in Botswana 34 Koreen M. Reece 2 'You can learn to do it right, or you can learn to do it wrong': marriage counselling, togetherness and creative conservatism in Lynchburg, Virginia 54 Siobhan Magee 3 Marriage, time, affect and the politics of compromise in Athens 76 Eirini Papadaki 4 Getting married as a trial: deferring marriage in Jinmen, Taiwan 95 Hsiao-Chiao Chiu 5 (Un)certain futures: rhythms and assemblages of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriages 118 Sidharthan Maunaguru 6 Marriage and self-fashioning in Penang, Malaysia: transformations of the intimate and the political 140 Janet Carsten Index 160 LiSt of figuRES vii List of figures 1.1 Go fiwa molao: Batswana women 'give the law' to the new bride, covered in blankets. © Koreen M. Reece. 35 4.1 Steady rise in the age at first marriage for both sexes.