Intimate Connections - Love and Marriage in Pakistans High Mountains

Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Series Foreword by Péter Berta

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Transcription

1 Politics of the Sensible

2 Embodying Modest Reserve

3 Arranging Affection

4 Fearing Passion

5 Romancing Marriage

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

About the author

ANNA-MARIA WALTER is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oulu in Finland and is part of an interdisciplinary team working on conservation, tourism, and remoteness in Europe. She lives in Munich, Germany.

Summary

Dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. The book offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands.

Product details

• Authors: Walter, Anna-Maria Walter
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781978820487
• ISBN: 978-1-978820-48-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gende; Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories