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Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Key to Kinship Notation xv
Part One: The Politics of Cultural Contestation
1.
Introduction: The "Untouchable" Rejection of Hegemony
and False Consciousness 		3
Forms of Resistance, 3
The Relevance of a Critical Feminist Theory, 5
The Politics of Culture, 7
The Socioeconomic Background, 8
Classes Within Castes, 12
2.
"Kinship Burns!" Kinship Discourses and Gender 13
The Categories of Tamil Kinship, 16
The Mother's Brother, 20
Affinal Kin and Patrilineal Kin, 27
The Concept of the Blood-Bond, 29
Mother's Brother, Astrology, and Divination at Childbirth, 31
The Blood-Bond and Non-Brahmin "Matrilateralism," 33
The Exchange of Blood, 35
Implications of the Blood-Bond, 38
What Kinship Connotes, 39
"Kinship Burns!" 43
3.
Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice
in Tamil Marriage 		46
Non-Brahmin and Brahmin Marriage Preferences
and Their Implications, 		47

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Publication Information: Book Title: Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India. Contributors: Karin Kapadia - author. Publisher: Westview Press. Place of Publication: Boulder, CO. Publication Year: 1995. Page Number: vii.
    
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