Rural nostalgias and transnational dreams : identity and modernity among Jat Sikhs /

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Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporic lives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation of Jat Sikh identity amid diverse ideals and incursions of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mooney, Nicola, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Colección:Anthropological horizons.
Temas:
Sikhs > India > Social conditions.
Jats > India > Social conditions.
Sikhs > India > Ethnic identity.
Jats > India > Ethnic identity.
Sikhs > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Jāti (Caste) > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Sikhs > Identité ethnique > Inde.
Jāti (Caste) > Identité ethnique > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Rural conditions.
Sikhs > Ethnic identity.
Sikhs > Social conditions.
Punjab (India) > Rural conditions.
Pendjab (Inde) > Conditions rurales.
India.
India > Punjab.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Jat Sikh Locations and the Bahu Ethnographer
  • Farming, Family and Faith: Elements of Jat Sikh Identity
  • Good Families: Marriage, Gender and Middle Class Jat Community
  • Good Fortunes: Education, Class and National
  • Contingencies among Jats
  • Unities and Schisms in Jat Sikh Identity
  • The Rural Imaginary
  • A Wedding Phulkari and Other Gifts
  • Modern Jat Identities: Some Conclusions.

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