A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation - Couverture souple

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Chatterjee, Piya

 
9780822326748: A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
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ISBN 10 : 0822326744 ISBN 13 : 9780822326748
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements-picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields-came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system.
Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, postcolonial, and now neofeudal conditions. In telling the overarching story of commodity and empire, A Time for Tea demonstrates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest, and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own "decolonization" as a Third World feminist anthropologist. The book concludes with an extended reflection on the cultures of hierarchy, power, and difference in the plantation's villages. It explores the overlapping processes by which gender, caste, and ethnicity constitute the interlocked patronage system of villages and their fields of labor. The tropes of coercion, consent, and resistance are threaded through the discussion.
A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labor studies, and comparative or international feminism.

Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.

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À propos de l?auteur

Piya Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822326744
ISBN 13 
9780822326748
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
434
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780822326793: A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0822326795 ISBN 13 :  9780822326793
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2001
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