| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 286 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Anthropology online
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| Contents |
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Guide to Pronunciation; Credits; Part 1 Introduction; Prologue: Making and Unmaking the ""Great Tradition""; 1 Tradition, Modernity, and Their Gendered Places; Domestic Ritual and Its Practice; Feminisms; The Public Culture of Domestic Ritual; About the Book; Part 2 Elite Cultures and Hybrid Modernities; 2 Brokering Culture for the Nation; Caste, Culture, and Modernity; Smārta Brahmans in Chennai: Historical Roots of Contemporary ""Middleness""; Elite Identity and Postcolonial Cultural Politics; Smārtas As Cultural Brokers; Conclusion |
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3 The Moral Etiquette of Everyday HinduismEveryday Hinduism; The Domestic Interior; Conclusion: Cultural Logistics; Part 3 The World in the Home; 4 The Ritualization of Womanhood; Ritual Time; The Life Course Imagined; Negotiating Normativity; Temporality and Womanhood; Conclusion: Womanhood's Contradictions; 5 The Uncertain Subject(s) of Womanhood; The Goddess and Her Servants; Improvised Lives; Part 4 The Home in the World; 6 Hinduism and the Spaces of Modernity; Hindu Temples and the Public Sphere -- Temples As Contested Public Spaces; Religion and Urban Life |
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7 Urban Places and Female SpacesParvati; Rajalakshmi; Conclusion; 8 Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation; Hindutva Goes South; Consenting to What?; Jaṇ̄ Kalyāṇ As a Discourse of Hindu Nationalism; Bringing the Nation Home; 9 Tradition Revisited; Navarāttiri in a New Key; The Contest; Ethnographies and Feminisms; Glossary; References; Index |
| Summary |
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. This highly original ethnographic analysis of Brahman women's ritualized practice demonstrates how tradition and modernityand the shifting boundaries between themare explicitly and implicitly produced and reworked on the body of t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Women, Tamil -- Rites and ceremonies
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Women, Tamil -- Religion
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Women, Tamil -- Social conditions
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Urban women -- India -- Chennai
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Women in Hinduism -- India -- Chennai
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Sex role -- India -- Chennai
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Spatial behavior -- India -- Chennai
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Manners and customs.
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Sex role.
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Spatial behavior.
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Urban women.
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Women in Hinduism.
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Women, Tamil -- Religion.
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Women, Tamil -- Social conditions.
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Vrouwen.
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Tamils (volk)
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Hindoeïsme.
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Chennai (India) -- Social life and customs
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Chennai (India) -- Religious life and customs
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India -- Chennai.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780786742509 |
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078674250X |
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9780429971587 |
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0429971583 |
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9780429982668 |
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0429982666 |
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