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



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Autore: Clark-Decès Isabelle <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu / / Isabelle Clark-Decès Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 954/.82
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Tamil Nadu (India) Social life and customs
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
Titolo autorizzato: The right spouse  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-9050-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787871603321
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