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Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.
Sommario
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
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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.
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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.
