Brideservice, the politics of intimacy and Miskitu women's baseball

Brideservice, the politics of intimacy and Miskitu women's baseball

By Camilla Power

Anthropologist Mark Jamieson will talk on the Miskitu of Nicaragua, traditionally organised as 'confederacies of sisters'

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UCL Anthropology

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Mark Jamieson, our longterm colleague at the UEL Anthropology programme, will be talking on his work with the Miskitu of Nicaragua, a group with traditions of matrilocal brideservice and 'confederacies of sisters' where mothers-in-law (from POV of the husbands) are very much in authority. He looks at some contemporary expressions of this dynamic

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