TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uberoi,Patricia
TI  - Family, kinship, and marriage in India
SN  - 9780195635089 (pbk.)
U1  - 306.80954 FAM 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Delhi, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Families
KW  - India
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Kinship
N1  - 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
N2  - Contributed articles
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0195635086/
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