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Women of Honour: Gender and Agency among Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas
Karin M. Polit
Price
2035.00
ISBN
9788125042679
Language
English
Pages
380
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2012
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

In Women of Honour, Karin Polit gives an ethnographic account of how relationships are shaped among the Dalit people of Chamoli, Utttarakhand. Through thick descriptions of everyday life—conversations, friendship, dress, work—the author shows that gender identity is a process. Questioning the assumption that Indian women are mute and powerless, she argues that the people of Chamoli—women and men—see themselves as part of an agentive unity. These networks of agency, which include divine agents, are described as the basis of an honourable life.

The book will be of interest to anthropologists, feminists—especially Dalit feminists, sociologists and cultural critics.

Karin M. Polit is lecturer both at the South Asia Institute and at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Glossary

1. Introduction
2. Children, Bodies, Personhood
3. Engagement and Marriage
4. Taking on Responsibility
5. Wombs, Spirits and Male Offspring
6. Coming of Age
7. Reflections on Agency and Performance

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Index

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