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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
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.
