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Siva and Her Sisters : Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India /

By: Series: Studies in the ethnographic imaginationPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.Description: xv, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813334912
Other title:
  • Siva & her sisters [Spine title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.40954 KAP 20
LOC classification:
  • HT720 .K2957 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents The Politics Of Cultural Contestation; Introduction: The Untouchable Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness; Kinship Burns!: Kinship Discourses and Gender; Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage; Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender; The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals; Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender The Politics Of Everyday Life; Beware, It Sticks!: Discourses of Gender and Caste Gender And Production Politics; Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor; Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction; Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor; Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates; In Gods Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor.
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Contents
The Politics Of Cultural Contestation;
Introduction: The Untouchable Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness;
Kinship Burns!: Kinship Discourses and Gender;
Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage;
Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender;
The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals;
Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender The Politics Of Everyday Life;
Beware, It Sticks!: Discourses of Gender and Caste Gender And Production Politics;
Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor;
Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction;
Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor;
Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates;
In Gods Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor.