Soma Chaudhuri

Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India

Tempest in a Teapot

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India, the only academic work on witchcraft accusations in India, uses sociological theory and primary data to study contemporary witchcraft accusations. Located in the tea plantation region in Jalpaiguri, India, the book links the witchcraft accusations among the adivasi (tribal) to labor conflicts that ties tea plantation economics to the village household level quarrels. The book should be of interest to sociologists, gender scholars, labor historians, criminologists, anthropologists, migration and South Asian scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780739185247
• ISBN-10: 0739185241
• Artikelnr.: 45153578

Autorenporträt

By Soma Chaudhuri

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1: The Politics of Witchcraft Accusations
and Witch Hunts: An Introduction Chapter 2: Theory and Literature on
Witchcraft Accusations and Witch Hunts Chapter 3: Two Leaves and a Bud: The
Beginning Chapter 4: Categorization of Witch Hunts Chapter 5: Women, Moral
Boundaries, and Gossip in the Plantation Chapter 6: Tea Plantation
Politics, Oppression, and Protest Chapter 7: Towards a New Direction:
Activism and Protests Appendix A: Outline of Interview Guides Appendix B:
Selected List of Participants for the Interviews Appendix C: List of
Abbreviations Appendix D: Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author