The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu

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

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 in which Tamil inter.

Record details

ISBN: 0804790493
ISBN: 9780804790499
ISBN: 0804788065
ISBN: 9780804788069
ISBN: 0804790507
ISBN: 9780804790505
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.