{"product_id":"intimate-connections-anna-maria-walter-9781978820487","title":"Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains","description":"\u003ci\u003eIntimate Connections \u003c\/i\u003edissects 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna-Maria Walter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978820488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978820487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Anna-Maria Walter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995364360447,"sku":"9781978820487","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bd15dd3-29ee-4939-b319-94bc00cb8031.jpg?v=1683335403","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intimate-connections-anna-maria-walter-9781978820487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}