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anpu
anthropology
asian studies
Author_Margaret Trawick
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children
domesticity
embodiment
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eroticism
ethnography
family
family house
family love
family tree
history
india
indian family
indian studies
initiation
kinship
love
marriage
mirroring
nonfiction
parenting
raising children
religion
romantic love
sexuality
siblings
social sciences
south asia
south india
spouses
tamil
tamil family
twinning
Product details
- ISBN 9780520078949
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 1992
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
