Author : Katherine Twamley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137294302
This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group – Gujarati Indians – born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives.
Author : Katherine Twamley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137294302
This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group – Gujarati Indians – born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives.
Author : Vinod Chandra
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1837975973
Demonstrating the tremendous diversity of families in India, as well as their ongoing evolution, this volume answers a clear call to dive deeper into the intimacy of the domestic sphere in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing societies.
Author : Parul Bhandari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811515999
This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse. Using the prism of matchmaking, this book critically unpacks the concept of the 'modern' and traces the importance of moralities and values in the making of middle class identities, by bringing to the fore intersections and dynamics of caste, class, gender, and neoliberalism. The author discusses a range of issues: romantic relationships among youth, use of online technology and of professional services like matrimonial agencies and detective agencies, encounters of love and heartbreak, impact of experiences of pain and humiliation on spouse-selection, and the involvement of family in matchmaking. Based on this comprehensive account, she elucidates how the categories of 'love' and 'arranged' marriages fall short of explaining, in its entirety and essence, the contemporary process of spouse-selection in urban India. Though the ethnographic research has been conducted in India, this book is of relevance to social scientists studying matchmaking practices, youth cultures, modernity and the middle class in other societies, particularly in parts of Asia. While being based on thorough scholarship, the book is written in accessible language to appeal to a larger audience.
Author : L. McKenzie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137446773
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love.
Author : Anna-Maria Walter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978820488
Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples' mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.
Author : Parul Bhandari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040112749
This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in relationships, singlehood, ‘new’ ideas of masculinities, and embracing diverse sexual identities. It studies these forms of dissent in the context of changing legal discourses, impact of media in everyday life, and transforming social attitudes. As such, this book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting across diverse religious, ethnic, and gender and sexual identities of South Asia. Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, geography, political science, gender studies, and media studies. It will also appeal to academics who study South Asia with a special focus on love, intimacy, sexuality, marriage, migration, history, politics and media.
Author : Yafa Shanneik
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1978818467
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Author : Leïla Choukroune
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811075573
This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India, delineating the specific ways in which ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations have shaped modernities; and (b) perspectives on everyday practices of modernities and the cultural constituents of being modern. This book provides an enriching read by bringing together original papers from diverse disciplines and from renowned as well as upcoming scholars.
Author : J. Gabb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137434430
Who and how we love may be changing but our desire to be in a relationship endures. This book presents an incisive account of how couples experience, understand and sustain long-term relationships, exploring the emotional, practical and biographical resources that couples draw on, across the life course.
