Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
| Author/creator | Trawick, Margaret Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press |
| Description | 320 p. ill 15.000 x 023.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation Love, as a force in human affairs, is still not given much attention or credency by social scientists. With<i>Notes on Love in a Tamil Family</i>, 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.<br />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<i>anpu</i>--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<i>anpu</i>: 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 89004954 |
| ISBN | 9780520078949 |
| ISBN | 0520078942 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780520078949 |
| Stock number | 00027125 |
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