Womanhood In The Making : Domestic Ritual And Public Culture In Urban South India
by
Mary Hancock
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0367314002
ISBN-13
9780367314002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2019
Print length
302 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Regional studiesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographyPolitics & government
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Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses.
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 sect
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