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

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Place / Publishing House:Stanford, California : : Stanford University Press,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (217 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.