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Forced marriage “needs to be depoliticised”

This content was published on Jul 17, 2012 Marriage “is not, has never been and cannot be a private matter”, wrote the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. For centuries, endogamy – the practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class or social group – was the dominant practice in almost all communities. In Europe until a few decades ago, young people could be forced…