{"product_id":"intermarriage-from-central-europe-to-central-asia-9781496202116","title":"Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia\u003c\/i\u003e examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan. In this interdisciplinary volume Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer have drawn contributions from anthropologists and historians. The contributors explore the phenomenon of intermarriage both from the top down, in the form of state policies and official categories, and from the bottom up, through an intimate look at the experience and agency of mixed families in modern states determined to control the lives and identities of their citizens to an unprecedented degree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors address the tensions between state ethnic categories and the subjective identities of individuals, the status of mixed individuals and families in a region characterized by continual changes in national borders and regimes, and the role of intermarried couples and their descendants in imagining supra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A real eye-opener. \u003ci\u003eIntermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a crucially important topic that demonstrates what is lost when we neglect the subject of intimacy, gender, and intermarriage from studies of European nation-states. This book enlivens and deepens our understanding of how ethnic and civic nationalisms operate to join, divide, and differentiate people. . . . It provides a rich comparative context for scholars of intermarriage in colonial and settler-colonizer contexts.”—Ann McGrath, author of \u003ci\u003eIllicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Central and Southeastern Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Eric Garcia McKinley, “Boundary Crossings and the Evolution of German Identity: Protestant-Catholic and Jewish-non-Jewish Intermarriage, 1875-1935”\u003cbr\u003e 2. Benjamin Frommer, “Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fedja Burić, “Sporadically Mixed: Lowering Socialist Expectations and Politicizing Mixed Marriage in 1960s Yugoslavia”\u003cbr\u003e 4. Keziah Conrad, “Being Mixed and Showing It: Ethical Dilemmas of Self-Presentation in Bosnia”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. The Soviet Union and Its Successors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Uku Lember, “Memory and Asymmetry in Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Estonia during Late Socialism”\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sophie Roche, “Maintaining, Dissolving and Remaking Group Boundaries through Marriage: The case of Khujand in the Ferghana Valley”\u003cbr\u003e 7. Aksana Ismailbekova, “The Dynamics of Interethnic Marriage in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Fergana Valley”\u003cbr\u003e 8. Milena Oganesyan, “Of Intermarriage, ‘Hats,’ and Identity in Georgia”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Transnational Marriages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Lena Radauer, “Wedding the ‘Enemy’: Unions between Russian Women and ‘German’ Prisoners of the First World War”\u003cbr\u003e 10. Maren Röger, “Choices Made in Times of Rising Nationalism and National Socialism: Intermarriage between Germans and Eastern Europeans, 1871-1945”\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rósa Magnúsdóttir, “Divided Spouses: Soviet-American Intermarriage and Human Rights Activism during the Cold War”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Contributors","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409217200471,"sku":"9781496202116","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496202116.jpg?v=1730505988","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intermarriage-from-central-europe-to-central-asia-9781496202116","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}