Mary Hancock

Womanhood In The Making (eBook, ePUB)

Domestic Ritual And Public Culture In Urban South India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429982668
• Artikelnr.: 56863003

Autorenporträt

Mary Hancock is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction
Prologue: Making and Unmaking the "Great Tradition"
Tradition
Modernity
and Their Gendered Places
Domestic Ritual and Its Practice
Feminisms
The Public Culture of Domestic Rituat
About the Book
Part 2: Elite Cultures and Hybrid Modernities
Brokering Culture for the Nation
Caste
Culture
and Modernity
Smarta Brahmans in Chennai: Historical Roots of Contemporary "Middleness
" Elite Identity and Postcolonial Cultural Politics
Smartas As Cultural Brokers
Conclusion
The Moral Etiquette of Everyday Hinduism
Everyday Hinduism
The Domestic Interior
Conclusion: Cultural Logics of Consumption
Part 3: The World in the Home
The Ritualization of Womanhood
Ritual Time
The Life Course Imagined
Negotiating Normativity
Temporality and Womanhood
Conclusion: Womanhood's Contradictions
The Uncertain Subject(s) of Womanhood
The Goddess and Her Servants
Improvised Lives
Part 4: The Home in the World
Hinduism and the Spaces of Modernity
Hindu Temples and the "Public Sphere
" Temples As Contested Public Spaces
Religion and Urban Life
Urban Places and Female Spaces
Parvati
Rajalakshmi
Conclusion
Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation
Hindutva Goes South
Consenting to What?
Jan Kalyan As a Discourse of Hindu Nationalism
Bringing the Nation Home
Tradition Revisited
Navarattiri in a New Key
The Contest
Ethnographies and Feminisms