Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum

Gebundenes Buch

Cultures of Servitude

Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

Beschreibung

Employers and servants in Kolkata reveal through their own stories how their evolving culture of servitude has produced, preserved, and disrupted ideas of gender and class in India and beyond.

Autor

Raka Ray is Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies, Chair of the Center for South Asia Studies, and Associate Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India (1999). Seemin Qayum is a historical anthropologist and the author and editor of several works on nationalism, elites, and gender in modern Bolivia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780804760713
• ISBN-10: 0804760713
• Artikelnr.: 25854401