Intimate Connections

Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains

AvAnna-Maria Walter

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of 'love' reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:50 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9781978820487

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

ANNA-MARIA WALTER is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oulu in Finland and is part of an interdisciplinary team working on conservation, tourism, and remoteness in Europe. She lives in Munich, Germany.

Recensioner i media

"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women's and men's experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women's changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within."— Katherine Lemons, author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality."— Attiya Ahmad, author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Transcription1 Politics of the Sensible2 Embodying Modest Reserve3 Arranging Affection4 Fearing Passion5 Romancing MarriageGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex