Kinship, Authority, and the Practice of Secularism
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:30pm to 6pm
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https://www.facebook.com/events/315507589027596/This talk draws on ethnographic research in sharia courts (dar ul qazas) in the north Indian cities of Delhi and Patna to argue that kinship is a key site of secular governance. The regulation of kinship produces some of the oppositions—between public and private, secular and religious—upon which political secularism relies. By looking at how kinship is regulated, the talk explores the play between modes of authority that such regulation reflects and animates.
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