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Culture, creation, and procreation: concepts of kinship in South Asian practice
Monika Böck and Aparna Rao-
Frontmatter
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List of Maps, Figures, and Tables (page vii)
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Preface (page ix)
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Introduction: Indigenous Models and Kinship Theories: An Introduction to a South Asian Perspective (Monika Böck and Aparna Rao, page 1)
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Part One: Community and Person
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Chapter 1: We, the Brothers of Tiger and Bamboo: On the Notions of Person and Kin in the Eastern Hills of Nepal (Charlotte Hardman, page 53)
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Chapter 2: Village Bodies? Reflections on Locality, Constitution, and Affect in Rajasthani Kinship (Helen Lambert, page 81)
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Chapter 3: Blood, Milk, and Mountains: Marriage Practice and Concepts of Predictability among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir (Aparna Rao, page 101)
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Chapter 4: Kinship, Creation, and Procreation among the Vagri of South India (Lukas Werth, page 135)
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Chapter 5: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship: Body Fluids and Experience in the Social Organisation and Identity of a Peripatetic People (Joseph C. Berland, page 157)
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Part Two: Gender and Change
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Chapter 6: Kinship and Gender Identity: Some Notes on Marumakkathayam in Kerala (Marion H. G. den Uyl, page 177)
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Chapter 7: Habitus and its Implications in Constructing Kinship Ties: Data from a Bangladesh Settlement in Britain (Sultana M. Khanum, page 199)
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Chapter 8: Kinship and Marriage in the Construction of Identity and Group Boundaries among Indians in Mauritius (Oddvar Hollup, page 219)
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Part Three: Shared Knowledge in Practice
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Chapter 9: Theatre of Memory: Ritual Kinship Performances of the African Diaspora in Pakistan (Helene Basu, page 243)
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Chapter 10: Kinship as Anger: Relations of Resentment in Kalasha Divination (Peter Parkes, page 271)
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Chapter 11: Marriage Strategies in Lahore: Projections of a Model Marriage on Social Processes (Michael Fisher and Wenonah Lyon, page 297)
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Chapter 12: Power and Fertility: Divine Kinship in South India (Anthony Good, page 323)
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Epilogue (Sylvia Vatuk, page 357)
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Notes on Contributors (page 367)
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Index (page 371)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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LHO | 165 (Jan.-Mar. 2003): 324-328 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25157063 |
ANTPS | 97.2 (2002): 568-569 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40466060 |
AJSS | 31.3 (2003): 588-590 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23654736 |
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Published: 2000
Publisher: Berghahn Books
- 9781571819123 (paper)
- 9781571819116 (hardcover)