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Bartered brides : politics, gender, and marriage in an Afghan tribal society / Nancy Tapper

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-52115-7 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-38158-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-02467-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967398031     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511521157

DS354.58

306.81     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Women -- Afghanistan ; Afghanistan -- Social life and customs ; Families -- Afghanistan ; Durani (Afghanistan people) -- Marriage customs and rites

Durani (Afghanistan people) ; Marriage customs and rites ; Families ; Afghanistan ; Women ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Social life and customs

Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender

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Personal background -- Comparative perspectives on marriage -- Regional background: the Durrani of Saripul -- Patriliny, gender and endogamy -- The Maduzai subtribe -- Household production and reproduction -- Brideprice and direct exchange -- Rituals of marriage -- Marriage choice -- The power of shame -- The marriages of Jahhi Adam's descendants -- Durrani marriage: conclusions