Andrea Wright, "Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil" (Stanford UP, 2021)
New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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How Kinship Practices Influence Kinship Dynamics
i met a young man named ogash who was working in a factory that built parts that's used when constructingtain oil rigs. Like many, many of the men worked with, their big concern was to their need to purchase gold for their sisters or their a daughters weddings. And this is largely because of the roll of dowry, or gifts given from the wife's family to the groom's family at the time of marriage. So how kinship practices act as a way to fufil familia. In particular, in buying gold, or ways to fulfil similar obligation and for men to be good brothers and sons. It also hilihts the way the gendered rolls within
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