ISBN:
9781137294302
,
1137294302
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 199 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Twamley, Katherine Love, marriage and intimacy among Gujarati Indians
DDC:
306.70941
Keywords:
Gujarat
;
Ehe
Abstract:
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Interactions in the 'Field' 3. Parental Authority, Youth Autonomy and Marital Decisions 4. Pathways to Marriage 5. Love 6. Gender 7. Conclusions Appendix 1. Tables of Participants Appendix 2. Data Analysis Procedures Appendix 3. Participants' Ranking of Traits Appendix 4. Matrimonial and Dating Agency Materials
Abstract:
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, One of the first of its kind, 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. Using in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with middle-class Gujaratis aged between 20 and 30 years of age, it explores their relationship ideals and early experiences of marriage formation. It shows how discourses on what it means to be modern have interacted with pervasive ongoing status ideologies in both the UK and India. In bringing together the findings from both contexts, the book addresses the connections between intimacy, class, globalisation and kinship. Young Gujaratis are concerned not only with global ideals of 'companionate marriage', but also with national and local ideologies of what constitutes a 'respectable' middle-class marriage and family ideal. Such ideals shape not only practices of courtship and relationships, but the very experiences of love and desire
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137294296
DOI:
10.1057/9781137294302
