Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
A Love, Anthropology, Nonfiction book. Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. By Margaret Trawick. Berkeley, CA: University of...
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....
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780520078949 / 520078942
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Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. By Margaret Trawick. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. Pp sxxi+299, 36 plates. $24.95. In this person-centered ethnography, Margaret Trawick weaves together an exegesis of an ancient Tamil poem and her fieldwork notes detailing her stay with a rural Tamil family in 1980 to help readers... Outsider's intimate view as a social scientist with heart on the myriad ways "anpu" = love is manifested, negotiated, practiced, and dynamically formulated as necessary in mostly a high caste non-Brahmin family and intellectually from. Brahmin's perspective all the while inter- weaving her own young family's development during her research... I read this in college for a class on the "Studies of Southeast Asia" and found it very interesting as it is a part of India I am not familiar with, but my professor was and helped me understand the culture a bit more/
