| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Introduction : Indigenous models and kinship theories : an introduction to a South Asian perspective / Monika Böck, Aparna Rao -- PART ONE: COMMUNITY AND PERSON -- We, the brothers of tiger and bamboo : on the notions of person and kin in the Eastern hills of Nepal / Charlotte Hardman -- Village bodies? Reflections on locality, constitution, and affect in Rajasthani kinship / Helen Lambert -- Blood, milk, and mountains : marriage practice and concepts of predictability among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir / Aparna Rao -- Kinship, creation, and procreation among the Vagri of South India / Lukas Werth -- 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 -- Kinship and gender identity : some notes on Marumakkathayam in Kerala / Marion H.G. den Uyl -- Habitus and its implications in constructing kinship ties : data from a Bangladesh settlement in Britain / Sultana M. Khanum -- Kinship and marriage in the construction of identity and group boundaries among Indians in Mauritius / Oddvar Hollup -- Theatre of memory : ritual kinship performances of the African diaspora in Pakistan / Helene Basu -- Kinship as anger : relations of resentment in Kalasha divination / Peter Parkes -- Marriage strategies in Lahore : projections of a model marriage on social processes / Michael Fischer, Wenonah Lyon -- Power and fertility : divine kinship in South India / Anthony Good |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kinship -- South Asia
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Kinship.
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Manners and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
South Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Böck, Monika, editor.
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Rao, Aparna, editor.
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| LC no. |
00060885 97035432 |
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