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Isabelle Clark-Decès - The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu - 9780804788069 - V9780804788069
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The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu

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Description for The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu Hardback. The Right Spouse 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, one or two generations ago, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804788069
SKU
V9780804788069
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

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

Reviews for The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
"This beautifully written study on the 'emotional cosmology' of Tamil kinship (165) is an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship. It will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, South Asian studies, gender, and to anyone interested in what's going on in the marriage scene in India."
Haripriya Narasimhan
Pacific Affairs
"The decline of preferential marriage ... Read more

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