What Is The Role Of Marriage In Ancient India

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Marriage practices in India are well-known to the Western world, however, in the article by Serena Nanda, she discusses all types of marriages practiced within the country. How involved family members, particularly the parents are involved with their children getting married, arranged marriage, and the long process of finding a suitable spouse for their child — many factors are considered in this process. The author visited India many times and has strong ties to the country; match-making is very popular in India, though the article expressed the cultural variations between India and the United States.

Nanda, Serena 2000/2009 Arranging a Marriage in India, Annual Editions Anthropology.

In Japan, the standards for marriage, particularly
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She looked at virginity and marriage; arranged marriage and their concepts, as well as the duality of concepts between the male and female gender roles. Concepts of infidelity are changing as well as well as divorce; society around marriage is already and continuously being challenged and marriage is becoming a great industry, plus the pervasive nature of technology.

Fisher, Helen 2010 The New Monogamy: Forward to the Past, Annual Editions Anthropology.

The article on missing girls by Michelle Goldberg documented the trends and results of skewed sex rations, with a focus on India, and segues into China and South Korea. She analyzed son preference; dowry traditions and the ability for mother to get sonograms to allow for the possibility of sex-selective abortion. Goldberg also induced some historical context and interviews with women and women’s groups. The article read at many times like a story, an impactful and very dense one.

Goldberg, Michelle 2009 Missing Girls, Annual Editions
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He also discussed climate change in Greenland; he also discussed the history and use of language and culture in the world. Discussion of early ritualistic expression in early art from the Paleolithic period.

Wade Davis 2008 19:12 min. Ted Talks (Ted conference) Monterey, CA.

The “Bride Price” was a moving short film by Stephanie Sinclair about child brides in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and India; the film was spliced with moving and highly evocative photographs of child brides and their husbands/families. The video was photo driven, but had interviews of these young child brides/wives and their experiences, and hardships faced by being so young and a wife/mother. One of the young wives set herself on fire because she broke the family television and was afraid of the repercussions. Child brides in a old tradition that should be ended.

Stephanie Sinclair 2010 The Bride Price 7:34 min. International Center for Research on Women Afganistan, India,

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