Book contents
- Kinship, Law, and Politics
- The Law in Context Series
- International Journal of Law in Context: A Global Forum for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
- Kinship, Law, and Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Anatomy of Belonging
- Part 1 Kinship
- 1 Corporal Union as Performance of Belonging
- 2 The Making of Kin Belonging
- Part 2 Law
- Part 3 Politics
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Making of Kin Belonging
from Part 1 - Kinship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2020
- Kinship, Law, and Politics
- The Law in Context Series
- International Journal of Law in Context: A Global Forum for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
- Kinship, Law, and Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Anatomy of Belonging
- Part 1 Kinship
- 1 Corporal Union as Performance of Belonging
- 2 The Making of Kin Belonging
- Part 2 Law
- Part 3 Politics
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Medieval Karaite commentaries on incest prohibitions serve in this chapter as a lens for analyzing how notions of kinship and kin belonging developed in that setting. By examining what is required to become a relative with consanguineal or affinal kin belonging, the chapter explores the different notions of kinship and selfness that inform these legal trends and approaches. An innovative account is provided of the legal change that took place among the Karaites though the former half of the eleventh century as an outcome of changing perceptions of kinship, and shines a light on Karaite texts that have been largely ignored in modern scholarship, some printed here for the first time. Karaite authors discussed in the essay include Anan ben David, Ya’qub al-Qirqisani, Leṿi ben Yefet, Yeshu’ah ben Yehudah, Shelomoh ben David, and Yehudah Hadassi.
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- Kinship, Law and PoliticsAn Anatomy of Belonging, pp. 38 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020