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Author Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017, author.

Title The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu / Isabelle Clark-Decès.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Tamil (Indic people) -- Marriage customs and rites.
Tamil (Indic people) -- Marriage customs and rites.
Tamil (Indic people) -- Kinship.
Tamil (Indic people)
Kinship.
Marriage -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
Marriage.
India -- Tamil Nadu.
Kinship -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
Endogamy and exogamy -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
Endogamy and exogamy.
Tamil Nadu (India) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956- author. Right spouse 9780804788069 (DLC) 2013040995 (OCoLC)861497359
ISBN 9780804790505 (electronic book)
0804790507 (electronic book)
9780804788069
0804788065
9780804790499
0804790493