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Intimacy and touch: closeness, separation and family life in Kulob, southern Tajikistan

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:23 authored by Diana Ibanez-TiradoDiana Ibanez-Tirado
This article examines the emotional, embodied and sensuous aspects of intimacy within and between two families from Kulob, southern Tajikistan as it is embedded in imminent or/and impending conflict. It focuses on touch and its importance to the fashioning of family life that is also informed by government policies and Muslim subjectivities. The ethnography highlights bodily sensations such as shaking chills, and visceral episodes such as vomiting, fainting, or sensuously-dreaming because they materialise the narrative, experience and performativity of the qualities of touch. The article advances the notion that touch pertains not only to both physical immediacy and intimate closeness, but also to processes of physical separation and estrangement between two or more intimates.

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Intimacy and Touch; The Camel Trust

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Ethnography

ISSN

1466-1381

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

1

Volume

19

Page range

105-123

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Asia Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-07-25

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-07-25

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-07-24

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