| Description |
viii, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Negotiating Homes, Hegemonies, Identities, and Politics / Sara Dickey and Kathleen M. Adams -- Mutual Exclusions: Domestic Workers and Employers on Labor, Class, and Character in South India / Sara Dickey -- Transfers of Knowledge and Privileged Spheres of Practice: Servants and Employers in a Madras Railway Colony / Rachel Tolen -- Service or Servitude? The Domestication of Household Labor in Nepal / Saubhagya Shah -- Always Home, Never Home: Visayan "Helpers" and Identities / Jean-Paul Dumont -- Inside the Home and Outside the Family: The Domestic Estrangement of Javanese Servants / G. G. Weix -- Negotiated Identities: Humor, Kinship Rhetoric, and Mythologies of Servitude in South Sulawesi, Indonesia / Kathleen M. Adams -- Nurture for Sale: Sri Lankan Housemaids and the Work of Mothering / Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Dependents in the Master's House: When Rock Dulls Scissors / Louise H. Kidder -- Dolls, T-Birds, and Ideal Workers: The Negotiation of Filipino Identity in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable -- Gender, Islam, and Nationality: Indonesian Domestic Servants in the Middle East / Kathryn Robinson -- Ambiguous Hegemonies: Identity Politics and Domestic Service / Karen Tranberg Hansen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Household employees -- Southeast Asia.
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Household employees -- South Asia.
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Identity politics -- South Asia.
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Identity politics -- Southeast Asia.
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Minorities -- Employment -- South Asia.
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Minorities -- Employment -- Southeast Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
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Asia, Southeastern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
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| Author |
Adams, Kathleen M., 1957-
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Dickey, Sara.
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| LC no. |
99055617 |
| ISBN |
047211106X (hardback) |
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9780472111060 (hardback) |
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