Siva And Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination) - Hardcover

Kapadia, Karin

9780813381589: Siva And Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)

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ISBN 10: 0813381584 ISBN 13: 9780813381589

Publisher: Westview Press, 1995

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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About the Author:

Karin Kapadia is on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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