The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu

by Isabelle Clark-Deces and Isabelle Clark-Decs

Book Overview

The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Clark-Dec s presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804790493
• ISBN13: 9780804790499
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"