Culture, creation, and procreation : concepts of kinship in South Asian practice /
As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections.&qu...
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2000.
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| Έκδοση: | First edition. |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18799928 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction : Indigenous models and kinship theories : an introduction to a South Asian perspective / Monika Böck, Aparna Rao
- PART ONE: COMMUNITY AND PERSON
- We, the brothers of tiger and bamboo : on the notions of person and kin in the Eastern hills of Nepal / Charlotte Hardman
- Village bodies? Reflections on locality, constitution, and affect in Rajasthani kinship / Helen Lambert
- Blood, milk, and mountains : marriage practice and concepts of predictability among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir / Aparna Rao
- Kinship, creation, and procreation among the Vagri of South India / Lukas Werth
- Nature, nurture, and kinship : body fluids and experience in the social organisation and identity of a peripatetic people / Joseph C. Berland
- PART TWO: GENDER AND CHANGE
- Kinship and gender identity : some notes on Marumakkathayam in Kerala / Marion H.G. den Uyl
- Habitus and its implications in constructing kinship ties : data from a Bangladesh settlement in Britain / Sultana M. Khanum
- Kinship and marriage in the construction of identity and group boundaries among Indians in Mauritius / Oddvar Hollup
- Theatre of memory : ritual kinship performances of the African diaspora in Pakistan / Helene Basu
- Kinship as anger : relations of resentment in Kalasha divination / Peter Parkes
- Marriage strategies in Lahore : projections of a model marriage on social processes / Michael Fischer, Wenonah Lyon
- Power and fertility : divine kinship in South India / Anthony Good.