This marriage, said Lord Justice Thorpe, was “sufficiently offensive to the conscience of the English court that the court should refuse to recognise it and should refuse to give effect to the law of Bangladesh and sharia law.” On the weekend of 19-21 June 2009 the University of Ottawa hosted the Third Annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conference. In 1990s I attended scores of academic conferences, for reasons that now strike me as poor, if not deluded. I confess that, in the last ten years, I have been allergic to these usually dreary affairs, during which the tweedy set scurries beetle-like from one set of unintelligible papers to another. Or rather, the papers are all too intelligible, affirming the narrow set of Leftwing clichés about group-identity and oppression. I knew, however, that the Ottawa affair would be quite different – small, focused, and refreshingly un-postmodern. It was quite likely that the postures and vanities of postmodernism would come under objective analysis. (They did.) But what is “Generative Anthropology” (abbreviated as “GA”) and why should people of a conservative temperament take an interest in it? I will begin with a brief genealogy of “GA.”In England, Girls Vulnerable to Islamic Law
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