Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618633
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Some Marriage Customs in Southern India
Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618633
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618633
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Census of India, 1961: India
Author: India. Office of the Registrar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Malabar Law and Custom
Author: Lewis Moore
Publisher:
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Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The Paraiyan, and the Legend of Nandan
Author: A. C. Clayton
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618657
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618657
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Marriage Customs of the World [2 volumes]
Author: George P. Monger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition of Marriage Customs of the World examines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing the similarities across cultures. The new content in this work includes additional information on courtship and how future spouses are found in other cultures; marriage in art, cinema, theater, and poetry; wedding bands; forced marriages and shotgun weddings; New Year's weddings; legislation regarding marriage; and engagement practices. Entries carried over from the first edition have been revised and updated as well. With its broad scope and consideration of contemporary issues alongside historical information, this work will be ideal for high school and undergraduate students; scholars of anthropology, social studies, and history; and general readers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition of Marriage Customs of the World examines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing the similarities across cultures. The new content in this work includes additional information on courtship and how future spouses are found in other cultures; marriage in art, cinema, theater, and poetry; wedding bands; forced marriages and shotgun weddings; New Year's weddings; legislation regarding marriage; and engagement practices. Entries carried over from the first edition have been revised and updated as well. With its broad scope and consideration of contemporary issues alongside historical information, this work will be ideal for high school and undergraduate students; scholars of anthropology, social studies, and history; and general readers.
Journal of American Folklore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Kādirs of Anaimarais
Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618596
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120618596
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Tamil Temple Myths
Author: David Dean Shulman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400856922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual. As one of the first Western scholars to explore this tradition in detail, David Shulman brings together the stories associated with these sacred sites and places them in the context of the greater Hindu religious tradition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400856922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual. As one of the first Western scholars to explore this tradition in detail, David Shulman brings together the stories associated with these sacred sites and places them in the context of the greater Hindu religious tradition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Marriage and Modernity
Author: Rochona Majumdar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, “ancient” social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an “Indian” tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced “traditions”—the extended family and arranged marriage—entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new “marketplace” for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India. Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. Colonial Bengal tells a very different story.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, “ancient” social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an “Indian” tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced “traditions”—the extended family and arranged marriage—entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new “marketplace” for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India. Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. Colonial Bengal tells a very different story.