Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 /

Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur--the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser--as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding hears of changes in agriculture, labor relations, education, and the family. But Karimpur's residents do not speak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wadley, Susan Snow, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Ethnology > India > Mainpuri (District)
Villages > India > Mainpuri (District)
Families > India > Mainpuri (District)
Social change > India > Mainpuri (District)
Ethnologie > Inde > Mainpuri (District)
Villages > Inde > Mainpuri (District)
Familles > Inde > Mainpuri (District)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ethnology.
Families.
Rural conditions.
Social change.
Social conditions
Villages.
Dorf
Sozialer Wandel
Agrarische maatschappij.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
Villages > Inde > Mainpuri (district)
Changement social > Inde > Mainpuri (district)
Famille > Inde > Mainpuri (district)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Mainpuri (India : District) > Social conditions.
Mainpuri (India : District) > Rural conditions.
India > Mainpuri (District)
Uttar Pradesh
Karimpur
Mainpuri (Inde ; district) > Conditions sociales.
Social conditions > History
Uttar Pradesh (India)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "Tell Them to Listen with Their Ears Open" Increasing Disorder. Making Their Own Destiny. Karimpur and Its Environs, 1925-1984. Four Lives. Raghunath, a Cultivator. Santoshi, the Midwife. Saroj, a Brahman Widow. Mohan, an Elderly Brahman
  • 2. "There Should Be Control" Knowledge, Control, and Gender. "One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep" Shankar, the Village Headman, and Sufhir, a Poor Brahman
  • 3. "Power Comes through Money" Brahman by Birth. Brahmans as Patrons. Power in Karimpur. Gaining and Maintaining Honor. Brahman Lifestyles. Sheila, the Washerwoman
  • 4. "Poverty Is Written in My Destiny" Living One's Destiny. Sorrow. Being Poor. Escaping Poverty. Jiji and Kamla, Two Widows
  • 5. "The Domination of Indira" The Increasing Intrusion of the State into Agriculture. Rural Development Schemes. Health Care and the State. Attitudes toward Education. The Landlord's Loss of Dominance. Sunita, the Shepherd's Wife, and Saroj Revisited
  • 6. "Now Love Is Totally Lost."

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