Right Spouse - Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu

Zusatztext "Clark-Decès's work is a timely intervention as it forces the reader to revisit anthropological theories with a critical mind and appraise social change more intelligibly. This book will especially appeal to students and academics of anthropology! sociology! South Asian studies! and those with a specific interest in modernity and social change." Informationen zum Autor Isabelle Clark-Decès is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Klappentext Isabelle Clark-Dec¿is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Zusammenfassung The Right Spouse 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, one or two generations ago, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Clark-Decaes, Isabelle Clark-Deces, Isabelle Clark-Decès
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9780804790499
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9049-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous