Family, Kinship and Marriage in India

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Family, Kinship and Marriage in India attempts to capture the great variety of family types and kinship practices found in the South Asia region. Several theoretical formulations which posit an underlying unity in this variety, and some sophisticated new analyses of family and kinship are presented in an accessible form. Offering the best recent work as well as some celebrated classic writings, the readings also try to integrate a concern for gender issues into the study of Indian family and kinship.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patricia Uberoi

Patricia Uberoi is Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She was earlier Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. In addition to her recently published book, Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India (2006), She has edited Family, Kinship and Marriage in India (1993), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (1996), Tradition, Pluralism and Identity (co-ed., 1999) and Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Anthropology and Sociology (co-ed., 2007). From 1992 to 2006, she was Co-Editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology.