Culture, Creation, and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
- xi, 382p. 22 cm.
Indigenous Models and Kinship Theories: An Introduction to a South Asian Perspective Monika Boeck and Aparna Rao Part I: Community and Person Chapter 1. We, the Brothers of Tiger and Bamboo: On the Notions of Person and Kin in the Eastern Hills of Nepal Charlotte Hardman Chapter 2. Village Bodies? Reflections on Locality, Constitution, and Affect in Rajasthani Kinship Helen Lambert Chapter 3. Blood, Milk, and Mountains: Marriage Practice and Concepts of Predictability among the Bakkarwal of Jammu and Kashmir Aparna Rao Chapter 4. Kinship, Creation, and Procreation among the Vagri of South India Lukas Werth Chapter 5. Nature, Nurture, and Kinship: Body Fluids and Experience in the Social Organisation and Identity of a Peripatetic People Joseph C. Berland Part II: Gender and Change Chapter 6. Kinship and Gender Identity: Some Notes on Marumakkathayam in Kerala Marion H.G. den Uyl Chapter 7. Habitus and its Implications in Constructing Kinship Ties: Data from a Bangladesh Settlement in Britain Sultana M. Khanum Chapter 8. Kinship and Marriage in the Construction of Identity and Group Boundaries among Indians in Mauritius Oddvar Hollup Part III: Shared Knowledge in Practice Chapter 9. Theatre of Memory: Ritual Kinship Performances of the African Diaspora in Pakistan Helene Basu Chapter 10. Kinship as Anger: Relations of Resentment in Kalasha Divination Peter Parkes Chapter 11. Marriage Strategies in Lahore: Projections of a Model Marriage on Social Processes Michael Fischer and Wenonah Lyon Chapter 12. Power and Fertility: Divine Kinship in South India Anthony Good Epilogue Sylvia Vatuk Notes on Contributors