Caste and equality [online] : Friendship patterns among young academics in urban India / Stephanie Stocker
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Frontmatter Table of contents Notes
Introduction
Part I: Friendship in India – a ‘social phenomenon of modernity’?
1. Anthropological accounts of modernity
2. Research question: Peer groups among Tamil graduate students
Part II: Making and maintaining friendship 3. Exposure and status on campus
4. Beyond the campus: Among friends in the domestic sphere
Part III: Just a friend? Ritual implications 5. “Key site of cultural contestation”? Youth, education and marriage
6. Reflections on compatibility: The students′ perspective
7. Peers as mediators in matchmaking and pre-wedding ceremonies
8. Peers in wedding ceremonies
9. Conclusion and outlook
References and literature
Illustrations, tables and maps
Abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Achiziție prin proiectul Anelis Plus 2020.
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