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100 1  Clark-Decès, Isabelle,|d1956-2017,|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n99039041|eauthor. 
245 14 The right spouse :|bpreferential marriages in Tamil Nadu /
       |cIsabelle Clark-Decès. 
264  1 Stanford, California :|bStanford University Press,|c2014. 
300    1 online resource 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
340    |gpolychrome|2rdacc 
347    text file|2rdaft 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Tamil (Indic people)|xMarriage customs and rites.|0https:/
       /id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081501 
650  0 Tamil (Indic people)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85132209|xKinship.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2002011463 
650  0 Marriage|zIndia|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2008107445|zTamil Nadu.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n80061081-781 
650  0 Kinship|zIndia|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2009128068|zTamil Nadu.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n80061081-781 
650  0 Endogamy and exogamy|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85043078|zIndia|zTamil Nadu.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061081-781 
650  7 Tamil (Indic people)|xMarriage customs and rites.|2fast
       |0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1142441 
650  7 Tamil (Indic people)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1142428 
650  7 Kinship.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/987769 
650  7 Marriage.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1010443 
650  7 Endogamy and exogamy.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       909769 
650  7 Marriage.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000990
651  0 Tamil Nadu (India)|xSocial life and customs.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117237 
651  7 India|zTamil Nadu.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1208735 
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aClark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956- author.
       |tRight spouse|z9780804788069|w(DLC)  2013040995
       |w(OCoLC)861497359 
856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://
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       db=nlebk&AN=713596|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to 
       current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 
856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp://
       guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 
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