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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