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The book details the potential of computer mediated technologies, particularly the internet, in creation and nurturing political and cultural identities among the widely dispersed "conflict-generated" Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora and traces the engagement of the disapora in Australia Other the online media in the struggle for a homeland. Taking the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka as a given, the book explores the way in which new media have added dimensions to the issue. Although the theoretical framew...

Tamil (Indic people) --- Internet --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Political activity --- Political aspects --- Sri Lanka --- Politics and government

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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 preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Clark-Decès presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning marriage system: its past, present, and dwindling future. The book takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways

Tamil (Indic people) --- Marriage --- Kinship --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Exogamy --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Marriage customs and rites, Tamil --- Marriage customs and rites. --- Kinship. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Social life and customs.

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"This is an important book by Carl Vadivella Belle which argues that Hinduism and its manifestations in the diaspora has important significance in binding not only the Hindus but also encourages 'others' to revisit Hinduism, especially in a multicultural society like Malaysia which is dominated by communally infused discourses structured upon race and religion."
- Ajaya K. Sahoo, Journal of South Asian Diaspora

"Dr Belle weaves his magical journey over nearly half a century, offering poignant and potent insights into the socio economic and spiritual realities of Hindus in Malaysia. Numerous books may be available on Tamil Traditions and Hinduism in Malaysia, but none seem to have succinctly and encapsulated the very essence and heart of these veritable subjects. I would unreservedly recommend this book, to all those interested in matters pertaining to Indians and Hinduism in Malaysia."
- Professor Bala Shanmugam, Federation University

"This is a work of immense inspiration. Combining personal pilgrimage with ethnographic perseverance, it is at once a document of ritual power and cultural change and a biography of religious encounter. By becoming the religious Other, Carl Belle creates a new dimension in the understanding of Thaipusam as both ethnic and individual experience. Dauntlessly frank and insightful, it is without doubt a rare achievement."
- Raymond Lee, Universiti Malaya (retired)

Tamil (Indic people) --- Hinduism --- Thaipusam --- Kavadi (Hindu festival) --- Kavady (Hindu festival) --- Punguni Uththiram Kavady --- Thai Poosam Kavady --- Thai Pusam --- Thaipoosam Kavady --- Fasts and feasts --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Religion. --- Murugan --- Murukan̲ --- Subrahmaṇya --- Skanda --- Shanmugha --- Kumara --- Karthikeya --- Kartikeya --- Kumāra Svāmi --- Cult --- Murugan (Hindu deity)

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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 these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Decès demonstrates that rather than mourn the dead, these Tamil funeral songs first and foremost give meaning to the caste, gender, and personal experiences of the performers.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Dirges --- Folk songs, Tamil --- Tamil ballads and songs --- Tamil folk songs --- Funeral hymns --- Laments --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funeral customs and rites. --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- anthropology. --- behavioral analysis. --- caste system. --- ceremonial. --- cultural analysis. --- death songs. --- death. --- discussion books. --- funeral event. --- funeral singers. --- funeral songs. --- funerals. --- gender issues. --- graveyard petitions. --- grief and mourning. --- historical. --- indian culture. --- life and death. --- nonfiction. --- performers. --- personal experiences. --- rowdy songs. --- social behaviors. --- social customs. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- south india. --- tamil dirges. --- tamil. --- untouchables. --- village setting.

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Tamil (Indic people) --- Political atrocities --- Political persecution --- Crimes against humanity --- Atrocities --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Crime --- International crimes --- Genocide --- War crimes --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Government policy --- Rājapakṣa, Mahinda, --- Mahinda Rājapakṣa, --- Mahinda Rajapakse, --- Rājapakṣa, Mahinta, --- Rajapakse, Mahinda, --- Sri Lanka --- Australia --- Ahitereiria --- Aostralia --- Ástralía --- ʻAukekulelia --- Austraalia --- Austraalia Ühendus --- Australian Government --- Australie --- Australien --- Australiese Gemenebes --- Aŭstralii︠a︡ --- Australija --- Austrālijas Savienība --- Australijos Sandrauga --- Aŭstralio --- Australské společenství --- Ausztrál Államszövetség --- Ausztrália --- Avstralii︠a︡ --- Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z --- Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z --- Avstralija --- Awstralia --- Awstralja --- Awstralya --- Aystralia --- Commonwealth of Australia --- Cymanwlad Awstralia --- Državna zaednica Avstralija --- Government of Australia --- Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah --- Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias --- Komanwel Australia --- Komonveltot na Avstralija --- Komonwelt sa Awstralya --- Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio --- Komunejo de Aŭstralio --- Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī --- Mancomunidad de Australia --- Mancomunitat d'Austràlia --- Negara Persemakmuran Australia --- New Holland --- Nova Hollandia --- Osṭralyah --- Ōsutoraria --- Persemakmuran Australia --- Samveldið Ástralía --- Usṭralyah --- Usturāliyā --- Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria --- Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας --- Αυστραλία --- Аўстралія --- Австралия --- Австралија --- Австралийски съюз --- Австралийският съюз --- Австралийский Союз --- Комонвелтот на Австралија --- Државна заедница Австралија --- אוסטרליה --- קהיליית אוסטרליה --- أستراليا --- كومنولث الأسترالي --- オーストラリア --- Shri Lanka --- Lanka --- Serendib --- Taprobane --- Cellao --- Zeilan --- Serendip --- Sī Langkā --- Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya --- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka --- Śrīlaṅkā --- Ilaṅkai --- Ceylon --- Politics and government --- History --- Foreign relations