Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal

Abstract

assimilating. Sylvia Vatuk's essay-vivid and refreshingly unpretentious--calls to our attention forms of address, a feature of relationship terminologies that generally finds itself overshadowed in analysis by terms of reference. She makes a microscopic analysis of North Indian families and argues that the extension of meaning from purported primary referents is not a helpful means to understanding the types of family address patterns that engage her attention here, a finding complementing those reached by Needham and others in their analyses of terms of reference. Vatuk's contribution is one of the best of this collection and enhances

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