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Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the anthropology of kinship and relatedness. She is the author of The Heat of the Hearth: Kinship and community in a Malay fishing village and After Kinship . Her edited volumes include Cultures of Relatedness: New approaches to the study of kinship and Ghosts of Memory: Essays on remembrance and relatedness . Blood Work: Life and laboratories in Penang was published in 2019.

Hsiao-Chiao Chiu is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project at the University of Edinburgh. She has conducted research on kinship and social change in post-Cold War Jinmen, Taiwan.

Siobhan Magee is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. As a Research Fellow working on the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project, she has carried out ethnographic research on the political, legal and religious contestations surrounding marriage in Virginia, USA. Her monograph, Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An ethnography of fur and society , was published in 2019.

Sidharthan Maunaguru is Associate Professor in Comparative South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His work focuses on the anthropology of marriage, migration and political violence, the anthropology of politics, religion, ethics and conscience. His monograph, Marrying for a Future , was published in 2019.

Eirini Papadaki is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on kinship, marriage, adoption, gender and parenthood in contemporary Greece.

Koreen M. Reece was ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage project at the University of Edinburgh and is currently Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She conducts research on kinship and intervention in Botswanas time of Aids and is the author of several articles. Her monograph, Pandemic Kinship: Families, intervention and social change in Botswanas time of AIDS , is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

The research on which the introduction and in this volume are based and the editing of this work were funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant under the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, grant agreement no. 695285 AGATM ERC-2015-AdG, held at the University of Edinburgh, which we gratefully acknowledge here. The members of the advisory committee of the Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage (AGATM) project Ammara Maqsood, Sidharthan Maunaguru, John McInnes, Susan McKinnon, Perveez Mody and David Sabean generously gave their support and comments on our work at different stages. We thank them all.

We are grateful to all the participants at a workshop on Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense: Biography, Intimacy and Transformation, held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2019, for their insightful and constructive comments on earlier versions of these chapters. Thanks are due to Sarah Walker for help with collecting bibliographic materials, and to Chris Penfold at UCL Press for guiding us smoothly through the publication of this book. We are extremely grateful to two anonymous reviewers and to Jonathan Spencer for their very helpful comments.

In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept Spain and sent its citizens into lockdown, a couple in the north-western city of A Corua stood in their window to celebrate a special occasion. Alba Daz and Daniel Camino had been planning a large-scale wedding for months, and had even transformed a warehouse for the purpose. But their preparations came to grief in the face of a government ban on social gatherings, and on all movement except for trips to acquire essential items. Undaunted, they asked guests to send photos of themselves dressed up for the wedding, recruited a next-door neighbour to lead the ceremony from his window and found another to act as witness. The bride wore her wedding gown. The event was reported by the Guardian :

A bouquet was crafted out of a few boxes of flowers that hadnt been used at the venue... As they began on this special day, two friends are getting married, their neighbour called out, his voice filling the empty street others, stuck in their homes by the same lockdown orders, began poking their heads out. Soon dozens were cheering them on, calling for the couple to kiss as Daz threw her bouquet into the apartment of a friend who lives across from her. In the end it felt our wedding [sic], said Daz. It was unique, special and very personal, added Camino. (Kassam 2020)

Innovation in marriage has not been confined to the personal efforts of couples or individuals, of course. In May 2015, Ireland stunned the world with a decisive yes vote to approve same-sex marriage (Ireland becomes first country to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, Irish Times , 23 May 2015). With an exceptional turnout, and a result of 62 per cent in favour to 38 per cent against, the predominantly Catholic nation set a striking new standard for promulgating progressive marriage law. The Minister for Children, James Reilly, was reported as saying that a lot of voters have been thinking about their grandchildren and giving them the same opportunities in life, should they be gay ( Callai and Hilliard 2015). In the Guardian report on these events from the same day, Taoiseach Enda Kenny was quoted as saying,

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