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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tamil (Indic people)--Marriage customs and rites.

Tamil (Indic people).

Tamil (Indic people)--Kinship.

Marriage--India--Tamil Nadu.

Marriage.

Kinship--India--Tamil Nadu.

Kinship.

Endogamy and exogamy--India--Tamil Nadu.

Endogamy and exogamy.

Tamil Nadu (India)--Social life and customs.

Tamil Nadu (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804790505

0804790507

OCLC:

874321424