| Description |
xi, 382 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: Community and person. CH. 1 We, the brothers of tiger and bamboo: on the notions of person and kin in the Eastern Hills of Nepal / Charlotte Hardman -- Ch. 2 Village bodies? Reflections on locality, constitution and affect in Rajasthani kinship / Helen Lambert -- Ch. 3 Blood, milk and mountains: marriage practice and concepts of predictability among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir / Aparna Rao -- Ch. 4 Kinship, creation and procreation among the Vagri of South India / Lukas Werth -- Ch. 5 Nature, nurture and kinship: body fluids and experience in the social organisation and identity of a peripatetic people / Joseph C. Berland. Part Two: Gender and change. CH. 6 Kinship and gender identity: some notes on Marumakkathayam in Kerala / Marion H.G. den Uyl -- CH. 7 Habitus and its implications in constructing kinship ties: data from a Bangladesh settlement in Britain / Sultana M. Khanum -- Ch. 8 Kinship and marriage in the construction of identity and group boundaries among Indians in Mauritius / Oddvar Hollup. Part Three: Shared knowledge in practice. CH. 9 Theatre of memory: ritual kinship performances of the African Diaspora in Pakistan / Helene Basu -- Ch. 10 Kinship as anger: relations of resentment in Kalasha Divination / Peter Parkes -- Ch. 11 Marriage strategies in Lahore: projections of a model marriage on social processes / Michael Fischer and Wenonah Lyon -- Ch. 12 Power and fertility: divine kinship in South India / Anthony Good |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Kinship -- South Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| Author |
Rao, Aparna.
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Böck, Monika.
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| LC no. |
00060885 97035432 |
| ISBN |
1571819126 paperback |
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1571819118 : |
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