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  • THE MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL COURT IN SINGAPORE
    JUDITH DJAMOUR
    This book is an anthropologist's field study of the new court set up in Singapore to deal with matrimonial suits (chiefly divorce) among Muslims. The study is based on careful observation of the court in action, and analyses in detail the relationship between the reformist aims of the new law and the values and expectations of litigants. The book takes its departure from the ar...

    $1,120.00

  • MALAY KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE IN SINGAPORE
    JUDITH DJAMOUR
    Dr Djamour spent two years in Singapore, both in the city and in a Malay fishing village, and her first-hand account draws a lively and sympathetic picture of behaviour within the family and between kinsmen. It is nonetheless an important contribution to social anthropology and discusses, as its central topic, the instability of Malay marriage. The causes and consequences of th...

    $1,120.00