Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few dec

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This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liai

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