Selma, see: Caroline Ifeka: Hierarchical Woman: The `Dowry' System and its Implications among Christians in Goa, India Contributions to Indian Sociology July 1989 vol.23: pages: 261-284 Distributed by Sage - see http://cis.sagepub.com/content/23/2/261.extract
I am copying this message to GoaNet because Sage is currently offering free access (after registration and until 15 Oct.) to their electronic journal database. Search the database and some of the 1314 Goa references you will have access to, abstract and/or full text formats: 1. Left high and dry?: The lives of women married to seafarers in Goa and Mumbai. By Helen Sampson. Ethnography, March 2005; vol. 6, 1: pp. 61-85. 2. John F. Kennedy and the Goan Crisis. By Paula Banerjee. International Studies, July 1996; vol. 33, 3: pp. 323-339. 3. Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa. By Arun Saldanha. Tourist Studies, April 2002; vol. 2, 1: pp. 43-62. 4. Interrogating modernity, gendering 'tradition': Teatr tales from Goa. By Rowena Robinson. Contributions to Indian Sociology, October 1999; vol. 33, 3: pp. 503-539. 5. Caste Hierarchy and Competition in an Overseas Indian [Nairobi Goan] Community. By Donna Nelson. Contributions to Indian Sociology, January 1973; vol. 7, 1: pp. 1-15. For these and more, go to http://online.sagepub.com/ Back to the dowry question: There is also, quite independently of the Sage resource: THESES 1. Exploring the impact of the media on the arranged marriage and dowry system in Goa, India. By Hickman, Lisa Ann M.A., Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), 2007, 144 pages. 2. The Gift of a Bride: Sociological Implications of the Dowry System in Goa. By A. Almeida. Ph. D. thesis, University of Louvain, 1978 BOOKS: http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=Goa+Dowry&btnG=Search+Boo ks and http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=Goa%20Dowry&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&t ab=ps and a couple of pages in GOMES, Olivinho: Village Goa. 1987. Eddie Fernandes
