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200 14$aThe right spouse $epreferential marriages in Tamil Nadu /$fIsabelle Clark-Dece?s
210  1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2014]
210  4$dİ2014
215   $a1 online resource (217 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8047-9049-3 
311   $a0-8047-8806-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction : 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.
330   $aThe 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-Dece?s 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 
606   $aTamil (Indic people)$xMarriage customs and rites
606   $aTamil (Indic people)$xKinship
606   $aMarriage$zIndia$zTamil Nadu
606   $aKinship$zIndia$zTamil Nadu
606   $aEndogamy and exogamy$zIndia$zTamil Nadu
607   $aTamil Nadu (India)$xSocial life and customs
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aTamil (Indic people)$xMarriage customs and rites.
615  0$aTamil (Indic people)$xKinship.
615  0$aMarriage
615  0$aKinship
615  0$aEndogamy and exogamy
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700   $aClark-Dece?s$b Isabelle$f1956-$0992530
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906   $aBOOK
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996   $aThe right spouse$92456053
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