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This ethnographic project employs the term ‘Muslim marriages’ in a broadsense, as it emerges in public debate and as a form of marriage practicethat at least one of the parties concerned considers Islamically valid.It investigates both when and how particular marriage forms have becomesubject to public debate and what kinds of new (or new uses of old)marriage forms and wedding celebrations are emerging in everyday life.Depending on context, this includes, for instance, unregistered,visiting, temporary, interreligious, transnational, and polygamousmarriages.Who are participating in these marriage forms, and how arethey performed? Who are able to shape these new forms? How and by whomare such marriages authenticated, authorized or contested as Muslimmarriages? Under which conditions do particular forms of Muslimmarriages emerge and become licit while other forms become devalued andmarginalized? The wider question this project addresses is whateconomic, political, religious and cultural work these new Muslimmarriages do. What subjectivities and socialities do they produce? Howdo they shape economic relations, group boundaries, religious ethics,and cultural forms?Theoretically, this project intends to contribute tofields such as: Islam, public debate, legal practices, and everydaylife; globalization, marriage and reproduction; the family, economy, andintimacy; the body, gender, and sexuality; religion, ethics and aesthetics.PhD candidates will be based in Amsterdam at the AISSR and will conductlonger term ethnographic fieldwork, preferably in Indonesia, Lebanon,Morocco, the Gulf States and the Balkans. Candidates with strongarguments to do fieldwork elsewhere may also apply.Plus d'infos : http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-205.html