Co-organised by the Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC) and the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CEH), at 5.30pm in room 308F in the Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie building, Université Paris Nanterre.
Abstract : This paper will synthesise some main currents of anthropological work on intimacy, love and the politics of love. It presents the growing ethnographic study of love and intimacy in diverse settings to elucidate the ways in which love has become increasingly entangled as a politicised site of contestation in everyday relations of sexuality, marriage, gender and kinship. Whilst intimacy, love and marriage have been subject to detailed examination in a wide range of anthropological accounts (see for instance Boellstorff 2007, Constable 2009, Brettell 2017), this paper seeks to focus particular attention on intimate relations and the circuits of governance through which they become visible as political contestations, “love laws” or love jurisdictions. Studies of intimacy, love and politics serve as an excellent prism through which anthropologists have explored the shape of everyday relations and the complex entanglements of individuals, kinship groups and the state. The central focus of this paper is to draw attention to the ways in which intimacy and love inscribe value on these processes and vice versa, such that love and regimes of value are mutually constituted.
Suggested reading for this session :
— Cohen, Lawrence 2007. “Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity” in N. Menon (ed.) Sexualities, Redwood City, CA : Women Unlimited : Delhi, pp. 197-223
— de Munck, Victor 1996. “Love and Marriage in a Sri Lankan Muslim Community : Toward a Re-evaluation of Dravidian Marriage Practices” in American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov. 1996), pp. 698-716
— Gell, Alfred 1996. “Amour, Connaissance et Dissimulation” in Terrain : Revue d’ethnologie de l’Europe, No. 27, Sept. 1996 (Translated by Catherine Rouslin). Also available at http://aotcpress.com/articles/love/ (last accessed 15.11.’19)
— Mody, P. 2013. “Love Jurisdiction” in Cambridge Anthropology, Volume 31, Number 2, Autumn 2013 , pp. 44-59 (16)
— Mody, P. 2002. “Love & the Law : Love-Marriage in Delhi”, Modern Asian Studies, 36, 1, pp. 223-256, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
— Parry, J. 2001. “Ankalu’s Errant Wife : Sex, Marriage & Industry in Contemporary Chhatisgarh.” In Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct. 2001), pp. 783-820. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
The workshop is open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served after the session.
Sessions for the year 2019-2020
28 November 2019 : Perveez Mody (University of Cambridge), Intimacy and the Politics of Love.
9 January 2020 : Clémence Jullien (Université de Zürich), Bertrand Lefebvre (EHESP) et Fabien Provost (LESC), Autour de l’ouvrage collectif L’hôpital en Asie du Sud. Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin (collection Puruṣārtha, éditions de l’EHESS, 2019).
23 January 2020 : Peter Berger (University of Groningen), Complementary Grainhood among the Gadaba of Central India.
6 February 2020 : Arnaud Kaba (CeMIS/University of Göttingen), Cinquante mains pour un bracelet : Dynamiques communautaires et rapports de sexe dans la transmission du savoir-faire verrier à Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh).
27 February 2020 : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (LAS), L’expérience carcérale au Népal, à partir des récits des prisonniers et de leurs journaux intimes.
19 March 2020 : Rachel Guidoni (CEH), Les capitales himalayennes dans les archives photographiques. Autour de la participation du CEH au projet CollEX.
30 April 2020 : Blandine Ripert (CEIAS), titre à venir.
14 May 2020 : Olivier Herrenschmidt (LESC), En finira-t-on jamais avec Manu ?
28 May 2020 : Xavier Houdoy (Université Paris 8), La création de nouveaux districts en Arunachal Pradesh : Dynamiques croisées de territorialisation et de détournement de l’action publique.
4 June 2020 : Kunsang Namgyal (CEH), Pratiques rituelles et représentations commémoratives chez les Néwar de la vallée de Kathmandu.
11 June 2020 : Serena Bindi (Université Paris Descartes), titre à venir.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
ASH Workshop - Thursday 17.30pm–17.30pm
Room308 F, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie
Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC)
21 allée de l’université, Nanterre.
RER A – Nanterre Université
Contacts :
Fabien Provost (LESC/CEH associate member)) and Nicolas Prévôt (UPN / LESC)
Contact : provost.fabien@outlook.com, nicolas.prevot@parisnanterre.fr