Identity, Gender and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan

Unnithan-Kumar, Maya

ISBN 10 : 1571819185 ISBN 13 : 9781571819185

Editeur : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 1997

Synopsis

Most studies of the so-called tribal communities in India stress their social, economic, and political differences from communities that are organized on the basis of caste. It was this apparent contrast between tribal and caste lifestyle and, moreover, the paucity of material on tribal groups, that motivated the author to undertake this study of a poor tribal community, the Girasia, in northwestern India.

While carrying out her fieldwork, the author soon became aware that the traditional tribe-caste categories needed to be revised; in fact, she found them more often than not to be constructs by outsiders, mostly academic. Of greater importance for an understanding of the Girasia was the wider and more complex issue of self-perception and identification by others that must be seen in the context of their poverty as well as in the strategic and shifting use of kinship, gender and class relations in the region.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571819185
• ISBN 13: 9781571819185
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne