Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||
Better Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory by Catherine A. Lutz
$18.00
|
Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community by Theresa DeLeane O'Nell  (1)
$26.95
|
Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks In A Muslim City by Paula Holmes-Eber  (1)
$30.00
|
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval by Merry Isaacs White  (1)
$22.95
|
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, by Lila Abu-Lughod (9)
$23.36
|
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Love, as a force in human affairs, is still not given much attention or credency by social scientists. With Notes on Love in a Tamil Family, Margaret Trawick places the notion of love prominently in social scientific discourse. Her unforgettable and profusely illustrated study is a significant contribution to anthropology and to South Asian studies.
Trawick lived for a time in the midst of one large South Indian family and sought to understand the multiple and mutually shared expressions of anpu--what in English we call love. Often enveloping the author herself, changing her as she inevitably changed her hosts, this family performed before the young anthropologist's eyes the meaning of anpu: through poetry and conversation, through the not always gentle raising of children, through the weaving of kinship tapestries, through erotic exchanges among women, among men, and across the great sexual boundary. She communicates with grace and insight what she learned from this Tamil family, and we discover that love is no less universal than selfishness and individualism.
From the Inside Flap
"Very important for South Indian Studies, the work marks a break with the dominant interpretive traditions that have been stagnant for some time now."--Stephen A. Tyler
Love, as a force in human affairs, is still not given much attention or credency by social scientists. With Notes on Love in a Tamil Family, Margaret Trawick places the notion of love prominently in social scientific discourse. Her unforgettable and profusely illustrated study is a significant contribution to anthropology and to South Asian studies.
Trawick lived for a time in the midst of one large South Indian family and sought to understand the multiple and mutually shared expressions of anpu--what in English we call love. Often enveloping the author herself, changing her as she inevitably changed her hosts, this family performed before the young anthropologist's eyes the meaning of anpu: through poetry and conversation, through the not always gentle raising of children, through the weaving of kinship tapestries, through erotic exchanges among women, among men, and across the great sexual boundary. She communicates with grace and insight what she learned from this Tamil family, and we discover that love is no less universal than selfishness and individualism.
From the Inside Flap
"Very important for South Indian Studies, the work marks a break with the dominant interpretive traditions that have been stagnant for some time now."--Stephen A. Tyler
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
See all 2 customer reviews...
