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

Author: Karin Kapadia
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Series: Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Kapadia, Karin.
Siva and her sisters.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995
(OCoLC)654917258
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karin Kapadia
ISBN: 0813381584 9780813381589 0813334918 9780813334912
OCLC Number: 31374059
Description: xv, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction: The "Untouchable" Rejection of Hegemony and False Consciousness --
2. "Kinship Burns!" Kinship Discourses and Gender --
3. Marrying Money: Changing Preference and Practice in Tamil Marriage --
4. Blood Across the Stars: Astrology and the Construction of Gender --
5. The Vulnerability of Power: Puberty Rituals --
6. Dancing the Goddess: Possession, Caste, and Gender --
7. "Beware, It Sticks!" Discourses of Gender and Caste --
8. Pauperizing the Rural Poor: Landlessness in Aruloor --
9. Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Laborers, Production, and Reproduction --
10. Discipline and Control: Labor Contracts and Rural Female Labor --
11. Mutuality and Competition: Women Landless Laborers and Wage Rates --
12. In God's Eyes: Gender, Caste, and Class in Aruloor.
Series Title: Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
Other Titles: Siva & her sisters
Responsibility: Karin Kapadia.
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Abstract:

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.

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