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Loading... The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Naduby Isabelle Clark-Decès
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The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book 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 and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Clark-Dece s presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning marriage system: its past, present, and dwindling future. The book takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)954.82History and Geography Asia India and South Asia Southern India Tamil NaduLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |