Family, kinship, and marriage in India / edited by Patricia Uberoi.
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TextSeries: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropologyPublication details: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: viii, 502 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780195635089 (pbk.)
- 0195635086 (pbk.)
- 306.80954 FAM 23 000902
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-493) and index.
Introduction / Patricia Uberoi
I. Regional Varieties : North and South. The Kinship Map of India / Irawati Karve. The Study of Dravidian Kinship / Thomas Trautmann. North India in Relation to South India / Louis Dumont
II. Descent Groups and the Kindred. Lineage Structure and Change in a Gujarat Village / A. M. Shah. Brahman Kinship in a Tamil Village / E. Kathleen Gough. Gender and the Khasi Family Structure / Tiplut Nongbri. Relatives and the Kindred in the Punjabi Kinship System / Paul Hershman. Masks and Faces: an Essay on Punjabi Kinship / Veena Das
III. Marriage, Alliance, and Affinal Transactions. The Nayars and the Definition of Marriage / Kathleen Gough. Himalayan Polyandry and the Domestic Cycle / Gerald D. Berreman. Marriage Rules and Patterns of Marriage in the Dravidian Kinship Region / Thomas Trautmann. The Structural Implications of Marriage Alliance in North India: Wife-givers and Wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir / T. N. Madan.
Marriage Preferences among the Dhund of Northern Pakistan / Hastings Donnan. The Hypergamy of the Patidars / D. F. Pocock. Dowry in North India: its Consequences for Women / Ursula Sharma. Bridegroom Price in Urban India: Caste, Class and 'Dowry Evil' among Christians in Madras / Lionel Caplan
IV. Family, Household and Social Change. Karimpur Families over Sixty Years / Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr. The Hindu Family and Development / T. N. Madan. The Family and the Reproduction of Inequality / Andre Beteille. Economics and the Family / Amartya Sen
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