Making the Right Choice

Contents
Series Foreword by Peter Berta
Introduction
1 - Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now
2 - Making the 'Right' Choice
3 - Structuring the 'Right' Choice
4 - The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages
5 - The Valued Self: Singleness
6 - The Vindicated Self: Divorce
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• Sociologia, família e relacionamentos
• Antropologia social e cultural
• Economia do desenvolvimento
• Sociedade e cultura: geral

Marriage; gender; Sinhala-Buddhist; Sri Lanka; modern subjectivities; politics of marriage; gendered selves; Sinhala; divorce; failed marriages; Abeyasekera; kinship; family; gender identity; modernity; middle-class; feminist; Buddhist; morality; social mobility; intergenerational conflict; modern; becoming modern; Kimberly; Guinta; love; global; desire; North India; social structures; culture; sexuality; material culture; political economy; marriage in North India; sexual consent; consensual relationships; legal subjectivity; marital patterns; arranged marriages; anthropology; Indian state; feminism; legal anthropology; aspiration