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Papers by Bodil Selmer
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of e... more Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of emotional and financial engagements. The latest reform of the Danish Inheritance Act in 2008 was an attempt to cope with the legal challenges posed by blended families with regard to inheritance. The solution was to grant the surviving spouse greater rights as well as a greater share of the estate, thus favouring the horizontal conjugal bond between current spouses. Since the surviving spouse is often not the parent of all the deceased's children, the vertical transfer of assets and heirlooms between generations is challenged. This has consequences for the way material things can generate continuities and act to reproduce kinship over time, as a way of kinning former and coming generations. This article addresses the role of inheritance and heirlooms in processes of kinning and de-kinning. Résumé Divorce, mariages et nouveaux partenaires créent des familles recomposes avec des configu...
Aarhus University Press eBooks, 2008
Kvinden fra Tyrkiet - en cas
Law & Literature, 2021
Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four ... more Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four middle-aged siblings concerning testamentary dispositions of two beloved and valuable family cabins....
Tidsskrift For Familie Og Arveret, 2010
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of e... more Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of emotional and financial engagements. The latest reform of the Danish Inheritance Act in 2008 was an attempt to cope with the legal challenges posed by blended families with regard to inheritance. The solution was to grant the surviving spouse greater rights as well as a greater share of the estate, thus favouring the horizontal conjugal bond between current spouses. Since the surviving spouse is often not the parent of all the deceased's children, the vertical transfer of assets and heirlooms between generations is challenged. This has consequences for the way material things can generate continuities and act to reproduce kinship over time, as a way of kinning former and coming generations. This article addresses the role of inheritance and heirlooms in processes of kinning and de-kinning. Résumé Divorce, mariages et nouveaux partenaires créent des familles recomposes avec des configu...
Aarhus University Press eBooks, 2008
Kvinden fra Tyrkiet - en cas
Law & Literature, 2021
Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four ... more Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four middle-aged siblings concerning testamentary dispositions of two beloved and valuable family cabins....
Tidsskrift For Familie Og Arveret, 2010