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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hancock, Mary Elizabeth. Womanhood in the making. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607113671 Online version: Hancock, Mary Elizabeth. Womanhood in the making. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607346134 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Elizabeth Hancock |
| ISBN: | 0813335833 9780813335834 |
| OCLC Number: | 40076711 |
| Description: | xv, 286 p. : ill. map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: Making and Unmaking the "Great Tradition" -- Tradition, Modernity, and Their Gendered Places -- Domestic Ritual and Its Practice -- Feminisms -- The Public Culture of Domestic Ritual -- Elite Cultures and Hybrid Modernities -- Brokering Culture for the Nation -- Caste, Culture, and Modernity -- Smarta Brahmans in Chennai: Historical Roots of Contemporary "Middleness," -- Elite Identity and Postcolonial Cultural Politics -- Smartas As Cultural Brokers -- The Moral Etiquette of Everyday Hinduism -- Everyday Hinduism -- The Domestic Interior -- Conclusion: Cultural Logics of Consumption -- The World in the Home -- The Ritualization of Womanhood -- Ritual Time -- The Life Course Imagined -- Negotiating Normativity -- Temporality and Womanhood -- Conclusion: Womanhood's Contradictions -- The Uncertain Subject(s) of Womanhood -- The Goddess and Her Servants -- Improvised Lives -- The Home in the World -- Hinduism and the Spaces of Modernity -- Hindu Temples and the "Public Sphere," -- Temples As Contested Public Spaces -- Religion and Urban Life -- Urban Places and Female Spaces -- Parvati -- Rajalakshmi -- Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation -- Hindutva Goes South -- Consenting to What? -- Jan Kalyan As a Discourse of Hindu Nationalism -- Bringing the Nation Home -- Tradition Revisited -- Navarattiri in a New Key -- The Contest -- Ethnographies and Feminisms. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Elizabeth Hancock. |
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Abstract:
"In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created, deployed, and objectified by Tamil Brahmans as they produce their own class, gender, national, and sectarian identities. Through case studies of women's religious practices, the book reveals how female subjectivities are invented and reworked through ritually mediated relations among women and between women and the powerful goddesses to whom they are devoted." "This work will interest scholars and students of anthropology, history, cultural studies, women's studies, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Women, Tamil -- Rites and ceremonies.
- Women, Tamil -- Religion.
- Women, Tamil -- Social conditions.
- Women -- India -- Madras.
- Women in Hinduism -- India -- Madras.
- Sex role -- India -- Madras.
- Spatial behavior -- India -- Madras.
- Madras (India) -- Social life and customs.
- Madras (India) -- Religious life and customs.
- Vrouwen.
- Tamils (volk)
- Hindoeïsme.
- Frau
- Soziale Rolle
- Tamil Nadu
- Tamouls (peuple d'Asie du Sud) -- Rites et cérémonies.
- Tamouls (peuple d'Asie du Sud) -- Religion.
- Tamouls (peuple d'Asie du Sud) -- Conditions sociales.
- Femmes en milieu urbain -- Inde -- Madras (Inde).
- Femmes dans l'hindouisme -- Inde -- Madras (Inde).
- Madras (Inde) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
- Madras (Inde) -- Vie religieuse.
