Embroidering lives : women's work and skill in the Lucknow embroidery industry
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Embroidering lives : women's work and skill in the Lucknow embroidery industry
(SUNY series in the anthropology of work)
State University of New York Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Fusing aesthetic and economic analyses, Embroidering Lives investigates the lives and work of women in the chikan embroidery industry of Lucknow, India. Richly descriptive and accessibly written, the book explores many important issues in women's studies, anthropology, and urban development today—the impact of purdah (seclusion of women) upon women's work and occupational opportunities, the key role of sub-contractors in home-based industry, the need to understand a handicraft from its makers' point of view, and the role of development agencies and programs.
Table of Contents
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
A Note on Translation
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Methodology
Apprenticeship and learning (about) chikan
Summary of chapters
Chapter 1 Chikan in Historical Context
The field setting
What is chikan?
Stitches and "work"
Origins and history of chikan
Chapter 2 The Division of Labor
The production process
Knowledge and the division of labor
Productive specialties
Machine work
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Embroiderers in Social Perspective
Theorizing women's work
Problems with statistics
Embroidery and poverty
Leisure
Religion
Caste
Purdah
Embroidery and the life cycle
Chapter 4 Work and. Wages
Embroidery wages
Work habits
Agents and embroiderers
Summary
Is chikan embroidery "free-time" work?
Chapter 5 Skill and Knowledge in Fine Chikan Embroidery
Distinguishing the work of a skilled embroiderer
Knowledge of chikan
Learning chikan
Shauq and pareshani
Processes of learning
The embroiderer's "design": Planning and execution
Working for the market: Concessions in skill
Chapter 6 Development Schemes and State Patronage
Government handicraft policy
Government promotion and patronage
Award schemes
Training schemes
Exhibitions
Government jobs for skilled embroiderers
SEWA Lucknow
Embroiderers, skilled embroiderers, the government, and SEWA Lucknow
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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