1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463925803321

Autore

Clark-Decès Isabelle <1956->

Titolo

The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu / / Isabelle Clark-Decès

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9050-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

954/.82

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808023103321

Autore

Peirce Charles S (Charles Sanders), <1839-1914, >

Titolo

Arithmetic / / by Charles S. Peirce ; edited by Carolyn Eisele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hague : , : Mouton Publishers

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Humanities Press, , 1976

ISBN

3-11-086970-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

The new elements of mathematics ; ; volume 1

Disciplina

510/.8 s

513

Soggetti

Arithmetic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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