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This paper will synthesise some main currents of anthropological work on intimacy, love and the politics of love. It presents the growing ethnographic study of love and intimacy in diverse settings to elucidate the ways in which love has become increasingly entangled as a politicised site of contestation in everyday relations of sexuality, marriage, gender and kinship. Whilst intimacy, love and marriage have been subject to detailed examination in a wide range of anthropological accounts (see for instance Boellstorff 2007, Constable 2009, Brettell 2017), this paper seeks to focus particular attention on intimate relations and the circuits of governance through which they become visible as political contestations, “love laws” or love jurisdictions. Studies of intimacy, love and politics serve as an excellent prism through which anthropologists have explored the shape of everyday relations and the complex entanglements of individuals, kinship groups and the state.  The central focus of this paper is to draw attention to the ways in which intimacy and love inscribe value on these processes and vice versa, such that love and regimes of value are mutually constituted.

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