Keep my share of rice in the cupboard: ethnographic reflections on practices of gender and agency among Dalit women in the Central Himalayas

The book illuminates various performative practices in Judith Butler's sense which construct gender as integral parts of everyday and ritual practices and are a constitutional of people’s gendered habitus. It describes in detail how low-caste (Mistari, Lohari and Tamta) women in Garhwal, Uttara...

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Main Author:	Polit, Karin M. (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2006
Subjects:	Hochschulschrift Rituelle Magie Ritual Dalit Geschlechterforschung Butler, Judith / Gender trouble Garhwal Uttarākhaṇḍa
Online Access:	Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106717 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek, Volltext: http://d-nb.info/1003249787/34 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2010/10671
Author Notes:	Karin Margret Polit