Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India: A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen

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Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India : A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen. / Fihl, Esther (Redaktør).

Copenhagen : Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ, 2016. 52 s. (Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie).

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Fihl, E (red.) 2016, Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India: A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen. Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie, bind No. 9, Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ, Copenhagen. <https://en.natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/forskning/dokumenter/Tranquebar/Skriftserie/Skriftserie_no_09_2016.pdf>

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Fihl, E. (red.) (2016). Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India: A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen. Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ. Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie https://en.natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/forskning/dokumenter/Tranquebar/Skriftserie/Skriftserie_no_09_2016.pdf

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Fihl E, (ed.). Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India: A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ, 2016. 52 s. (Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie).

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Fihl, Esther (Redaktør). / Dowry among Fishers in Tranquebar, south India : A study of an ethnographic collection of material objects from 1981 and life-story interviews from 2007. By Sofie Vilhelmsen. Copenhagen : Nationalmuseets Tranquebar Initiativ, 2016. 52 s. (Tranquebar Initiativets Skriftserie).

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N2 - English abstract:In this publication, I compare dowry in the fishing community ofTranquebar – or Tharangambadi as it is also called - in 1981 and2007. I do this on the basis of ethnographer Esther Fihl’s collectionof material objects from 1981, and some of her life-storyinterviews from 2007. The aim is to discuss the structural aspectsof dowry as well as the pace of dowry inflation. I argue that thesystems of dowry in 1981 and 2007 share a series of structuralsimilarities relating to issues of class, social status and social mobility.However, the dowries in and of themselves have changed;they have grown bigger and the items have been adapted to modernconsumption. I conclude that this change happened graduallybefore the tsunami in 2004 and rapidly in the post-tsunami period,as Tranquebar experienced an influx of relief money. A highlevel of social mobility within the fishing community is depicted ingirl-families in both 1981 and 2007, where a daughter’s upwardsmobility was more likely if she had a low number of sisters and herdownwards mobility was more likely if she had a high number ofsisters. Social mobility is similarly depicted in the reconstructingperiod after the tsunami in Tranquebar, where families with a highnumber of men were more likely to experience upwards mobilitythan families with a low number of male members.Dansk abstrakt:I denne artikel undersøger og sammenligner jeg medgiftsystemeti Tranquebars fiskerlandsbydel gennem en genstandssamling fra1981 og en serie livshistorie-interviews fra 2007, begge indsamletaf etnografen Esther Fihl. Mit fokus er på de strukturelle aspekteraf medgiftsystemet samt inflation i medgiften. Det konkluderes,at mange af de strukturelle sammenhænge, som påvirker medgift,findes i fiskersamfundet i Tranquebar i både 1981 og 2007,f.eks. klasseforskelle, social mobilitet, social status og i de enkeltefamilier også nogle gange en grad af forandring i størrelsen aføkonomisk indtægt på tværs af generationer. Imidlertid påvisesdet også, at medgiften er blevet større, og genstandene, somgives i medgift, har ændret sig til at inkludere moderne forbrugsgoder.Det konkluderes, at ændringerne i medgift er foregået jævntfrem mod slutningen af 2004, hvorefter udviklingen gik rivendehurtigt. Tsunamien i det Indiske Ocean i december 2004 ramtefiskerlandsbyen hårdt og medførte store tab af menneskeliv ogenorme ødelæggelser. I kølvandet på dette modtog mange fiskerfamiliernødhjælp og kompensation for tab af familiemedlemmer,hus og fiskeudstyr. Høj nedadgående mobilitet ses i både 1981og 2007, når det kommer til familier med mange døtre, idet deter sværere for dem at skaffe penge til medgift. På samme mådeses den høje mobilitet i Tranquebar i rekonstruktionsperioden, derefterfulgte tsunamien, hvor familier med mange mandlige fiskereoplevede opadgående mobilitet, idet nødhjælpen blev fordelt efteren traditionel kønsopdeling.

AB - English abstract:In this publication, I compare dowry in the fishing community ofTranquebar – or Tharangambadi as it is also called - in 1981 and2007. I do this on the basis of ethnographer Esther Fihl’s collectionof material objects from 1981, and some of her life-storyinterviews from 2007. The aim is to discuss the structural aspectsof dowry as well as the pace of dowry inflation. I argue that thesystems of dowry in 1981 and 2007 share a series of structuralsimilarities relating to issues of class, social status and social mobility.However, the dowries in and of themselves have changed;they have grown bigger and the items have been adapted to modernconsumption. I conclude that this change happened graduallybefore the tsunami in 2004 and rapidly in the post-tsunami period,as Tranquebar experienced an influx of relief money. A highlevel of social mobility within the fishing community is depicted ingirl-families in both 1981 and 2007, where a daughter’s upwardsmobility was more likely if she had a low number of sisters and herdownwards mobility was more likely if she had a high number ofsisters. Social mobility is similarly depicted in the reconstructingperiod after the tsunami in Tranquebar, where families with a highnumber of men were more likely to experience upwards mobilitythan families with a low number of male members.Dansk abstrakt:I denne artikel undersøger og sammenligner jeg medgiftsystemeti Tranquebars fiskerlandsbydel gennem en genstandssamling fra1981 og en serie livshistorie-interviews fra 2007, begge indsamletaf etnografen Esther Fihl. Mit fokus er på de strukturelle aspekteraf medgiftsystemet samt inflation i medgiften. Det konkluderes,at mange af de strukturelle sammenhænge, som påvirker medgift,findes i fiskersamfundet i Tranquebar i både 1981 og 2007,f.eks. klasseforskelle, social mobilitet, social status og i de enkeltefamilier også nogle gange en grad af forandring i størrelsen aføkonomisk indtægt på tværs af generationer. Imidlertid påvisesdet også, at medgiften er blevet større, og genstandene, somgives i medgift, har ændret sig til at inkludere moderne forbrugsgoder.Det konkluderes, at ændringerne i medgift er foregået jævntfrem mod slutningen af 2004, hvorefter udviklingen gik rivendehurtigt. Tsunamien i det Indiske Ocean i december 2004 ramtefiskerlandsbyen hårdt og medførte store tab af menneskeliv ogenorme ødelæggelser. I kølvandet på dette modtog mange fiskerfamiliernødhjælp og kompensation for tab af familiemedlemmer,hus og fiskeudstyr. Høj nedadgående mobilitet ses i både 1981og 2007, når det kommer til familier med mange døtre, idet deter sværere for dem at skaffe penge til medgift. På samme mådeses den høje mobilitet i Tranquebar i rekonstruktionsperioden, derefterfulgte tsunamien, hvor familier med mange mandlige fiskereoplevede opadgående mobilitet, idet nødhjælpen blev fordelt efteren traditionel kønsopdeling.

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