Author: Patricia Uberoi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 502
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195635086
Description
This work attempts to capture the great variety of family types and kinship practices found in the South Asia region.
Several theoretical formulations which posit an underlying unity in this variety, and some sophisticated new analyses of family and kinship are presented in an accessible form. Offering the best recent work as well as some celebrated writings, the readings also try to integrate a concern or gender issues into the study of Indian family and kinship.
MEDIA COMMENTS:
this volume has successfully staged the state of art in kinship studies. it will simply reward the reader with its fine selection of diverse strands of panoramic web of family, marriage and kinship ties in India. - The Book Review
A god introduction to the enormous variety of social organization that exists in the sub-continent, and to the theoretical problems involved in understanding this variety. - Sociological Bulletin
Contents
Preface
Introduction
PATRICIA UBEROI
REGIONAL VARIETIES: NORTH AND SOUTH
The Kinship Map of India
The Study of Dravidian Kinship
North India in Relation to South India
DESCENT GROUPS AND THE KINDRED
Lineage Structure and Change in a Gujarat Village
Brahman Kinship in a Tamil Village
Gender and the Khasi Family Structure
Kindred in the Punjabi Kinship System
Masks and Faces: an Essay on Punjabi Kinship
MARRIAGE, ALLIANCE, AND AFFINAL TRANSACTIONS
The Nayars and the Definition of Marriage
Himalayan Polyandry and the Domestic Cycle
Marriage Rules and Patterns of Marriage in the Dravidian Kinship Region
The Structural Implications of Marriage in north India:
Wife-givers and Wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir
Marriage Preferences among the Dhund of Northern Pakistan
The Hypergamy of the Patidars
Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women
Bridegroom Price in Urban India:
Caste, Class and Dowry Evil among Christians in Madras
FAMILY, HOUSEHOLD AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Karimpur Families over Sixty Years
The Hindu Family and Development
The Family and the Reproduction of Inequality
Economics and the Family
Glossary of Technical Terms
References
Index