Janet Carsten is Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on the anthropology of kinship, encompassing domesticity, the house, bodily substance, migration, and memory. She is the author of After Kinship (2004) and Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang (2019).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: marriage and the moral imagination; 1. Anthropological engagements: fieldwork, marriage, Malaysia and Penang; 2. Marriage and gender in the political moment; 3. Marriage over the generations; 4. Marriage in the flux of self-fashioning; 5. Negotiating difference in marriage: conjugality and 'mixing'; 6. Those who leave and those who stay: marital uncertainties narrated through time; 7. Imagining conjugal futures: the personal and the political; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Marriage and the Moral Imagination is a brilliant exposition of what Janet Carsten calls encounters with difference at the most intimate scale. At the same time, it is a profound reflection on new ways of conceiving the political and the ethical which sprout from the everyday and transform the way we imagine the emergence of the new. Carsten's work shows her creativity in thinking in the quietest of voices - her voice and the voices of her interlocutors who step out from these pages and become companions in the life we as readers come to share.' Veena Das, FBA, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University

Janet Carsten is Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on the anthropology of kinship, encompassing domesticity, the house, bodily substance, migration, and memory. She is the author of After Kinship (2004) and Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang (2019).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: marriage and the moral imagination; 1. Anthropological engagements: fieldwork, marriage, Malaysia and Penang; 2. Marriage and gender in the political moment; 3. Marriage over the generations; 4. Marriage in the flux of self-fashioning; 5. Negotiating difference in marriage: conjugality and 'mixing'; 6. Those who leave and those who stay: marital uncertainties narrated through time; 7. Imagining conjugal futures: the personal and the political; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Marriage and the Moral Imagination is a brilliant exposition of what Janet Carsten calls encounters with difference at the most intimate scale. At the same time, it is a profound reflection on new ways of conceiving the political and the ethical which sprout from the everyday and transform the way we imagine the emergence of the new. Carsten's work shows her creativity in thinking in the quietest of voices - her voice and the voices of her interlocutors who step out from these pages and become companions in the life we as readers come to share.' Veena Das, FBA, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University

Janet Carsten is Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on the anthropology of kinship, encompassing domesticity, the house, bodily substance, migration, and memory. She is the author of After Kinship (2004) and Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang (2019).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: marriage and the moral imagination; 1. Anthropological engagements: fieldwork, marriage, Malaysia and Penang; 2. Marriage and gender in the political moment; 3. Marriage over the generations; 4. Marriage in the flux of self-fashioning; 5. Negotiating difference in marriage: conjugality and 'mixing'; 6. Those who leave and those who stay: marital uncertainties narrated through time; 7. Imagining conjugal futures: the personal and the political; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Marriage and the Moral Imagination is a brilliant exposition of what Janet Carsten calls encounters with difference at the most intimate scale. At the same time, it is a profound reflection on new ways of conceiving the political and the ethical which sprout from the everyday and transform the way we imagine the emergence of the new. Carsten's work shows her creativity in thinking in the quietest of voices - her voice and the voices of her interlocutors who step out from these pages and become companions in the life we as readers come to share.' Veena Das, FBA, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University