Gender, Kinship and Property Rights: Nagarattar Womanhood in South India

By Yuko Nishimura

Here is an original, contemporary, and gendered look at kinship terminology and cross-cousin marriage in Tamil Nadu. Specifically, this ethnography profiles a prominent mercantile class known as the Nagarattar--a people notable for both their entrepreneurial success in the modern world and their adherence to long-standing values, rituals, and family traditions. The book offers a useful as well as readable perspective of womanhood in South India.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195642732
• ISBN13: 9780195642735
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"