Author: Isabelle Clark-Decès

At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of …

The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferen …

A Companion to the Anthropology of India A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views …

A Companion to the Anthropology of India A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views …

A reconsideration of the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge. The Encounter Never Ends offers a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between fieldwork and anthropologica …