Notes on Love in a Tamil FamilyUniversity of California Press, 15 nov. 2023 - 320 pages 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. 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 an |
Table des matières
Figures | |
CHAPTER TWO Generations | |
Paddi and Attai prepare banana flowers for cooking 57 | |
Anuradha 75 | |
Ayya relaxes in Peruveli 192 | |
CHAPTER THREE The Ideology of Love | |
CHAPTER FOUR Desire In Kinship | |
Annan with Jnana Oli and Sivamani 217 | |
Jnana Oli 230 | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Final Thoughts | |
Mankaiyarkkaraci 78 | |
Ponni 239 | |
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Epilogue | |
Aruljnanapperuveli 260 | |
CHAPTER FIVE Siblings and Spouses | |
CHAPTER SIX Older Women and Younger | |
Sivamani Arulmori and Daniel 207 | |
Anni and Jnana Oli 211 | |
Vishvanathan 213 | |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Lives of Children | |
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References | |
Index | |
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A. K. Ramanujan adults ambiguity Anni Anni and Padmini Anni’s anpu Anuradha Arivaraci Arulmori asked Attai Auvaiyar Ayya Ayya's body bond Brahmans brother-sister called caste Celvi child cousin cross-cousin cross-cousin marriage culture daughter deity desire dosais Dravidian kinship Dumont eyes father feelings female festival girl goddess guru household human husband ideal India Jnana Jnana Oli kind kinship system Lacan live Madras Madurai male marry matrilocal means Modday Mohana mother mother's brother myth Nallatankal never older brother one’s pacam Padmini Paraiyar parakkam parallel cousin parents patriline patterns person Pillaiyar Plate poem Ponni Porutcelvi punished Reddiar relations relationship rice Saiva Sanskrit servant sexual siblings Siva Sivamani social someone soul South Indian spouses story Tambu Tamil family Tamil Nadu Themozhiyar things Tirukkovaiyar told Umapathi uyir village Vishnu Vishvanathan wanted wedding wife woman women words