Ebook: The Family in India: Structure and Practice

"This volume brings together seminal essays which examine the meaning, forms and trajectory of the Indian family, and which go beyond the stereotypical joint/nuclear dichotomy that tends to dominate studies on the family. Using various methodological, conceptual and analytical tools, the essays cover both patrilineal and matrilineal family forms in different regions of India, and cover a wide range of historical and social situations." "Bringing together ethnographies and analyses of the socio-cultural dimensions of familial relationships, this book will be of considerable use to students and scholars of family studies, sociology, anthropology and development studies."--BOOK JACKET.