The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu - Couverture souple

Clark-Decès, Isabelle

 
9780804790499: The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
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ISBN 10 : 0804790493 ISBN 13 : 9780804790499
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Clark-Decès presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning marriage system: its past, present, and dwindling future. The book takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways in which Tamil intermarriage establishes kinship and social rank, and argues that past scholars have improperly defined "Dravidian" kinship. Within her critique of past scholarship, Clark-Decès recasts a powerful and vivid image of preferential marriage in Tamil Nadu and how those preferences and marital rules play out in lived reality. What Clark-Decès discovers in her fieldwork are endogamous patterns and familial connections that sometimes result in flawed relationships, contradictory statuses, and confused roles.

The book includes a fascinating narration of the complex terrain that Tamil youth currently navigate as they experience the complexities and changing nature of marriage practices and seek to reconcile their established kinship networks to more individually driven marriages and careers.

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À propos de l?auteur

Isabelle Clark-Decès is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804790493
ISBN 13 
9780804790499
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780804788069: The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0804788065 ISBN 13 :  9780804788069
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014
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