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Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around
love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of
Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful
perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their
active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are
shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty
and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic
revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent
of media and communication technologies has left a mark on
(pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim
world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals
rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics,
and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often
initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the
relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a
globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in
their lives.
In a world with more and more global trends and fast changing lives
due to technological innovations it is necessary to think about the
social aspects of these processes and consider their effects on
people's everyday lives. Much is said and written about the impacts
of mobile phones on Western societies but what about areas of the
world where technologies are still implemented, where the process
of appropriation is still going on, such as in rural South India?
To analyze the creative powers individuals have to integrate mobile
telephony in traditional ways of life was the aim of this paper. In
what way do innovations change the daily life of the people? How is
the mobile phone accepted in local communities? The most important
topics uncovered during the fieldwork in rural South India are
money saving techniques, like village phone operators, shared phone
use, and the practice of beeping, facts about direct personal
communication situations on the mobile phone, or the use of SMS,
and changes in the perception of time and space due to mobile
communication.
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