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Exchange Marriages in South Punjab, Pakistan

A Sociological Analysis of Kinship Structure, Agency, and Symbolic Culture

Muhammad Zaman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 202 Seiten

2011
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-63530-8 (ISBN)

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This book deals with the system of exchange marriages in South Punjab, Pakistan. This system does not only regulate mate selection, but it is also an institutional guarantee of reciprocity, welfare and social cohesion. It connects families by means of one marriage, and also creates a double bond between two (or sometimes more) couples. This establishes specific conditions for stability and possible changes in marriage pattern. Valuation and stigmatization as social mechanisms are used to maintain the system of the exchange. It also shows to what degree new forms of cultural values and new patterns of social exchange come into play, create contradictions and undermine the traditional cultural norms. The study focuses on the interplay between structure, culture, and agency (Archer 1996). Thereby, not only the functions and dysfunctions of the system come into view, but also the conditions under which the system is actively being maintained by different actors; the tensions that it produces between individual and collective perspectives; as well as the cultural and structural conditions under which marriage practices and concepts are gradually being transformed.

Muhammad Zaman completed his PhD studies from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Erasmus Mundus) from the University of Warsaw (Poland). He is working on the social exchange theory, research methods and sociology of conflict.

Contents: Exchange marriages - Pakistan - Social Capital - Marriage and Family - Gender and Women.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.11.2011
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 442
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Agency • Analysis • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Sociology • Culture • Exchange • Family and Marriage • Gender and Women Studies • kinship • marriages • Muhammad • Pakistan • Punjab • sociological • South • Structure • Symbolic • Zaman
ISBN-10	3-631-63530-3 / 3631635303
ISBN-13	978-3-631-63530-8 / 9783631635308
Zustand	Neuware