Intimate Connections : Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains / Anna-Maria Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, Anna-Maria (Anthropologist), author.

Series:

Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Pakistan.

Man-woman relationships.

Man-woman relationships--Religious aspects--Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SERIES FOREWORD

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Politics of the Sensible

2. Embodying Modest Reserve

3. Arranging Affection

4. Fearing Passion

5. Romancing Marriage

GLOSSARY

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Walter, Anna-Maria Intimate Connections

ISBN:

9781978820524

1978820526

OCLC:

1287132217