Cousin Marriages

Alison Shaw is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethnicity and health; social aspects of genetics; kinship, gender and transnational marriages. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000) and Negotiating Risk: British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics (2009).

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