Pt. I. The Marking of Difference -- 1. Men and boys: the lives of the fishermen -- 2. Women, money and markets -- 3. Gender, body and the tracing of relatedness -- Pt. II. The Merging of Difference -- 4. Becoming husband and wife -- 5. Loans and goods: flows and exchanges between households -- 6. Eating from one plate: gender, exchange and spouses -- Pt. III. Disputes and Negotiations -- 7. Gender and money: the saving and spending of household wealth -- 8. Conflict and violence -- 9. Conclusions
Summary
"The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. A detailed account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community reveals new ways of framing gender relations, the body, and kinship. The ethnographic account is set within the context of social and cultural theory, notably the ideas of Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.--1995)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index
