Siva and her sisters : gender, caste, and class in rural South India

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Siva and her sisters : gender, caste, and class in rural South India

Karin Kapadia

(Studies in the ethnographic imagination)

Westview Press, 1995

  • : pbk

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Siva & her sisters

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-260) and index

内容説明・目次

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: pbk ISBN 9780813334912

内容説明

This book examines two subordinated groups, untouchables" and women,in a village in Tamilnadu, South India. The lives and work of untouchable" women in this village provide a unique analytical focus that clarifies the ways in which three axes of identity,gender, caste, and class,are constructed in South India. Karin Kapadia argues that subordinated groups do not internalize the values of their masters but instead reject them in innumerable subtle ways.Kapadia contends that elites who hold economic power do not dominate the symbolic means of production. Looking at the everyday practices, rituals, and cultural discourses of Tamil low castes, she shows how their cultural values repudiate the norms of Brahminical elites. She also demonstrates that caste and class processes cannot be fully addressed without considering their interrelationship with gender.

目次

List of Tables and Illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgments, Key to Kinship Notation, Part One: The Politics of Cultural Contestation, Introduction: The "Untouchable" Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness, Forms of Resistance, The Relevance of a Critical Feminist Theory, The Politics of Culture, The Socioeconomic Background, Classes Within Castes, "Kinship Burns!" Kinship Discourses and Gender, The Categories of Tamil Kinship, The Mother's Brother, Affinal Kin and Patrilineal Kin, The Concept of the Blood-Bond, Mother's Brother, Astrology, and Divination at Childbirth, The Blood-Bond and Non-Brahmin "Matrilateralism," The Exchange of Blood, Implications of the Blood-Bond, What Kinship Connotes, "Kinship Burns!" Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage, Non-Brahmin and Brahmin Marriage Preferences and Their Implications, The Traditional Contexts of Non-Brahmin and Brahmin Marriage, The Advantages to Non-Brahmin Women in Close- Kin Marriage, The Bilaterality of Traditional Non-Brahmin Kinship, Changing Contexts: From Close-Kin Marriage to Non-Kin Marriage, Marriage Strategies Today: Statistics on Marriage Practices in Aruloor and Their Implications, Conclusion, Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender, Astrology and Cultural Contestation, The Menstruation-Horoscope, The Portents of a Horoscope, Horoscopes and the Patterns of Male Control, Astrological Problems in a Horoscope, Naga Dosham, Dosham and Karmam, Conclusion: Astrology and the Construction of Gender, The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals, Pallar Puberty Rituals, Muthurajah Puberty Rituals, Christian Paraiyar Puberty Rituals, Vellan Chettiar Puberty Rituals, Telugu Brahmin Puberty Rituals, The Effect of Menstrual-Horoscopes on Family and Kin, Conclusion: Inauspiciousness, Gender, and Kinship, Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender, Types of Possession, Temporary or Spontaneous Possession, Institutionalized Possession, Possession During the Process of "Wearing Alaku," Possession and Caste, Possession and Belief, Possession and Gender, Part Two: The Politics of Everyday Life, "Beware, It Sticks!" Discourses of Gender and Caste, Brahmin Discourse: The Sin of Menstruation, Lower-Caste Discourses of Gender and Sexuality, Discourses Regarding "Untouchable" Impurity, Pallar Rejections of Ritual Impurity, Consensual Versus Competing Discourses, Part Three: Gender and Production Politics, Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor, Kinds of Land Tenure in Aruloor, Land Reform Legislation, The Implications of the Land Reforms and of Caste for Landlessness, Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction, Recruitment to and Organization of Domestic Labor, Differential Wage-Contributions to the Household, Pallar Men and Technological Change, The Sexual Division of Labor, Payment for Agricultural Work, The Profits of Production and Ideologies of Reproduction, Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor, Changes in the Mode of Employment, Recruitment and Organization of Female Waged Labor, Recruitment to Daily Wages Work, Recruitment to Piece- Rate Contract Work, The Constitution of Contract Work-Groups, The Struggle for Work, Workers' Awareness of Collective Interests, Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates, Rudra's Model, The Socioeconomic Context, The Process of Wage Negotiations, Segmentation of the Labor Market, Conclusion, In God's Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor, References. About the Book and Author, Index
巻冊次

ISBN 9780813381589

内容説明

A study of the impact of caste and class on conceptions of gender, this book focuses on the lower castes/classes of South India. Examining the lives and work of untouchable women in a village in Tamil Nadu, the author explores the recently articulated critique of feminism that race, caste, and class may be more important factors than gender in a persons consciousness. She finds that in South India, caste and class construct gender, at the same time that gender constructs class and caste. This book examines two subordinated groupsuntouchables and womenin a village in Tamilnadu, South India. The lives and work of untouchable women in this village provide a unique analytical focus that clarifies the ways in which three axes of identitygender, caste, and classare constructed in South India. Karin Kapadia argues that subordinated groups do not internalize the values of their masters but instead reject them in innumerable subtle ways. Kapadia contends that elites who hold economic power do not dominate the symbolic means of production. Looking at the everyday practices, rituals, and cultural discourses of Tamil low castes, she shows how their cultural values repudiate the norms of Brahminical elites. She also demonstrates that caste and class processes cannot be fully addressed without considering their interrelationship with gender.

目次

  • 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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