Description: Right Spouse : Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu, Paperback by Clark-decès, Isabelle, ISBN 0804790493, ISBN-13 9780804790499, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Nthropology Asian Studies Isabelle Lark Deces is Professor Anthropology and Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. "The decline of preferential marriage among close kin is one of the most dramatic changes to have taken place in South India since the late twentieth century. The Right Spouse brilliantly combines ethnographic insight and theoretical analysis to make an invaluable addition to the long debate on the Dravidian kinship system." Chris Fuller, London School of Economics "This paradigm-shifting study reveals new dimensions of Dravidian kinship-in-action by documenting the fierce Tamil sense of matrimonial rights and the tragic personal dilemmas that may arise from marriages between cross-cousins, maternal uncles, and nieces. This is an innovative and provocativ in every respect." Dennis McGilvray, University of Colorado, Boulder The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. Isabelle Clark Deces presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning marriage system: its past, present, and dwindling future. Th takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways in which Tamil intermarriage establishes kinship and social rank, and argues chatpast scholars have improperly defined Dravidian kinship. Within her critique f past scholarship, Clark Deces recasts a powerful and vivid image of preferential arriage in Tamil Nadu and how those preferences and marital rules play out in lived ality. What she discovers in her fieldwork are endogamous patterns and familial connections that sometimes results in flawed relationships, contradictory statuses, and confused roles. Th 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. Cover Design Christian Euenfhausen Standord University Press
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Book Title: Right Spouse : Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Right Spouse : Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Isabelle Clark-Decès
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
