Womanhood in the making
domestic ritual and public culture in urban South India
by Mary Elizabeth Hancock
"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.
Through case studies of women's religious practices, the book reveals how female subjectivities are invented and reworked through ritually mediated relations among women and between women and the powerful goddesses to whom they are devoted."--BOOK JACKET. "This work will interest scholars and students of anthropology, history, cultural studies, women's studies, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
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Religion, Religious life and customs, Rites and ceremonies, Sex role, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Spatial behavior, Tamil Women, Urban women, Women in Hinduism, Women, Tamil, Hinduismus, Frau, Soziale Rolle, Women, Women, india, South india, India, social conditions, India, social life and customs, Femmes tamoules, Rites et cérémonies, Conditions sociales, Femmes, Femmes dans l'hindouisme, Rôle selon le sexe, Manners and customsPlaces
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Womanhood in the making: domestic ritual and public culture in urban South India
1999, Westview Press
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0813335833 9780813335834
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
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