Marriage quandaries in Central Asia

Abstract Many Central Asians speak of marriage as important and self-evident despite the fact that in practice across region presents a more complicated story. There is not only an extensive array practices indicated by single term wide variety things accomplishes its conclusion duration, but many non-marital sets relations Asia similarly realise what does. This may lead one to question whether there any sense trying pin down at all. Yet, this tension — flexibility form function, overlap with nonmarriage on hand, abiding importance and, times, self-evidentiary nature, other we suggest, lies heart marriage-as-practice Asia. Following recent turns kinship studies, long-standing feminist traditions, paper envisages relational legitimization rather than pinning it particular content. We argue focusing act getting married particular, efficacy, well disputes, questions, conflicts sometime arise result – short, quandaries get tensional nature marriage, everyday concerns major societal issues wrapped up