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Culture, creation and protection: concept of kinship in South Asian practice/ edited by Monika Bock and Aparna Rao

Contributor(s): Bock, Monika, ed | Rao, Aparna, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Berhahn Books, 2000Description: xi, 382 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 1571819118; 9781571819116Subject(s): Kinship | Manners and customs | South AfricaDDC classification: 306.830954

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.830954 BOC/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10782

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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.

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