Living class in urban India

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Living class in urban India

Sara Dickey

Rutgers University Press, c2016

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index

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内容説明

Honorable mention, 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India's citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the "second-tier" city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents' palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey's study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.

目次

AcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration and Pronunciation1. Introduction: The Everyday Life of Class2. What Is Class in Madurai?3. Four Residents, as I Know Them4. Consumption and Apprehension: Class in the Everyday5. Debt: The Material Consequences of Moral Constructs6. Performing the Middle7. Marriage: Drama, Display, and the Reproduction of Class8. Food, Hunger, and the Binding of Class Relations9. Conclusions: Nuancing Class BoundariesNotesReferencesIndex

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