The Intimate State : Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Perveez. Mody
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (333 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on Translation and Transliteration; List of Photographs, Table and Figure; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 'A Form of Marriage in Certain Cases'; 2 Legitimating Love: Tis Hazari and the Judicial Process; 3 Kidnapping, Elopement, and Self-Abduction; 4 Failed Love; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. - This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the individual and the couple in contemporary India.
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| Emner | Intermarriage - India - Delhi.
Intermarriage - Law and legislation - India - Delhi. Intermarriage. Family & Marriage Vis mer... Social Sciences
Sociology & Social History kjærlighet ekteskap India Dehli antropologi sosialantropologi moral lover rettsvesen |
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| ISBN | 9780415446044
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