Death and the Spirit of Patriarchy in Western India

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Abstract

Simpson’s ethnographic concern is with fathers-sons relations in Gujerat, India. This is a long and important concern of the anthropology of Islam, which has asked how far father-son relations reflect and build on Islamic history, and, thus, form a distinctively Muslim form of patriarchy. Simpson’s ethnography, conducted over a ten year period, questions Islam’s exceptionality while showing the complex ways in which wider social concerns over such things as travel, trade, wealth, and success register their significance to father-son relations in multifarious ways.

Keywords

Apprenticeship biraderi Bourdieu, Pierre Death Genealogy Gujarat Hanafi Jilani, Abdul Kadir Lineage Mandvi Patriachy Sailors/seafaring Spirit of patriarchy Structural-functionalism Western India 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African StudiesUniversity of LondonLondonUK

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