Caste and Equality : Friendship Patterns among Young Academics in Urban India /

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Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly-educated middle class in the Tamil town of Madurai. As part of their distinctive status as `educated persons', young graduates form egalitarian con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stocker, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2017]
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Temas:
Friendship > India > Madurai.
Graduate students > India > Madurai.
Caste > India > Madurai.
Middle class > India > Madurai.
Marriage > India > Madurai.
Amitié > Inde > Madurai.
Castes > Inde > Madurai.
Mariage > Inde > Madurai.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Caste
Friendship
Graduate students
Manners and customs
Marriage
Middle class
Madurai (India) > Social life and customs.
India > Madurai
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Friendship in India
  • a 'social phenomenon of modernity'?
  • 1. Anthropological accounts of modernity
  • 2. Research question: Peer groups among Tamil graduate students
  • Part II: Making and maintaining friendship
  • 3. Exposure and status on campus
  • 4. Beyond the campus: Among friends in the domestic sphere
  • Part III: Just a friend? Ritual implications
  • 5. "Key site of cultural contestation"? Youth, education and marriage
  • 6. Reflections on compatibility: The students2 perspective
  • 7. Peers as mediators in matchmaking and pre-wedding ceremonies
  • 8. Peers in wedding ceremonies
  • 9. Conclusion and outlook
  • References and literature
  • Illustrations, tables and maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledgements.

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