TY - BOOK ID - 85777024 TI - Learning to love : arranged marriages and the British Indian diaspora PY - 2021 SN - 9780813599632 0813599636 9780813599649 0813599644 PB - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Arranged marriage KW - East Indians KW - 316.356.2 <41> KW - 316.356.2 <41> Gezinssociologie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Gezinssociologie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Marriage KW - Marriage brokerage KW - Marriage customs and rites KW - Asian Indians KW - Indians, East KW - Indians (India) KW - Indic peoples KW - Ethnology KW - Arranged marriage. KW - Great Britain. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85777024 AB - "Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "modern and progressive migrants"-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging"-- ER -