The nation-family

Intimate encounters and genealogical perversion in Armenia

Bibliographic Data

ID2261059
AuthorsTamar Shirinian (0000-0003-4798-5129, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Millsaps College Box no. 150389 1701 N. State Street Jackson MS 39216, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume45
Issue1
Pages48-59
Publication date2018-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/amet.12598
OpenAlexW2789373200
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited37

Anthropological theorists have often dismissed the notion of nation-as-family as an abstraction or as evidence of nationalist sentiment. But in postsocialist Armenia, nation ispracticedas family. Everyday intimate encounters in public carry narratives of genealogical belonging and expectations based on forms of kin relation. This is particularly notable in the experiences of queer subjects-those who fail to meet the demands and expectations to belong to the nation-family and who thus disrupt national sensibilities of propriety and genealogical continuity. Those who are genealogically perverse experience the nation-family as unbearably intimate. This intimacy, however, makes possible acts that introduce queer difference into what national propriety means. [queer,intimacy,nation,kinship,perversion, postsocialism,Armenia

Art · Everyday life · Kinship · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Perversion · Political science · Politics · Queer · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Turkey's Politics and Society

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