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UNINA9910463925803321 |
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Clark-Decès Isabelle <1956-> |
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Titolo |
The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu / / Isabelle Clark-Decès |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Tamil (Indic people) - Marriage customs and rites |
Tamil (Indic people) - Kinship |
Marriage - India - Tamil Nadu |
Kinship - India - Tamil Nadu |
Endogamy and exogamy - India - Tamil Nadu |
Electronic books. |
Tamil Nadu (India) Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : Tamil preferential marriages -- The Kallars and Dumont's theory of alliance -- Doing the right thing -- The remainders of right marriages -- The younger brother takes less -- The unbearable weight of marrying kin -- The wrongness of kin -- Love in the time of youth -- Conclusion : the present is not another country. |
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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 |
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UNINA9910808023103321 |
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Autore |
Peirce Charles S (Charles Sanders), <1839-1914, > |
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Arithmetic / / by Charles S. Peirce ; edited by Carolyn Eisele |
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Hague : , : Mouton Publishers |
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Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Humanities Press, , 1976 |
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[Reprint 2015] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Collana |
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The new elements of mathematics ; ; volume 1 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Introduction to Volume 1 -- Contents -- 1. Lydia Peirce's Primary Arithmetic (189) -- 2. Primary Arithmetic [With Suggestions to Teachers] (181 and 182) -- 3. Peirce's Primary Arithmetic upon the Psychological Method (part of 179) -- 4. C.S. Peirce's Vulgar Arithmetic: Its Chief Features (178) -- 5 Practical Arithmetic (168 with examples from 167) -- 6. Factotal Augrim (169) -- 7. Familiar Letters about the Art of Reasoning (186) -- 8. Secundáis -- 9. Miscellaneous Notes -- Appendices -- Index |
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