| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
South Asia across the disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Who are the Dhanka? -- What it takes -- A good woman -- A traffic in marriage -- Wedding ambivalence -- Of contracts and Kaliyuga -- Conclusion : on collective aspiration. |
| Summary |
In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis. Moodie takes readers to a diversity of settings, including households, tribal council meetings, and wedding festivals, to reveal the aspirations that are expressed in each. Crucially, she demonstrates how such aspiration and identity-building are strongly gendered, requiring different dispositions required of men and women in the pursuit of collective social uplift. The Dhanka strategy for occupying the role of adivasi in urban India comes at a cost: young women must relinquish dreams of education and employment in favor of community-sanctioned marriage and domestic life. Ultimately, We Were Adivasis explores how such groups negotiate their pasts to articulate different visions of a yet uncertain future in the increasingly liberalized world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oraon (Indic people) -- India -- Jaipur.
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Oraon (Indic people) |
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India -- Jaipur. |
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Jaipur (India) -- Scheduled tribes.
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Women, Adivasi -- India -- Jaipur -- Social conditions.
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Women, Adivasi. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Scheduled tribes in India. |
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India. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Moodie, Megan. We Were Adivasis. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015 9780226252995 (DLC) 2014037588 (OCoLC)890360516 |
| ISBN |
9780226253183 (electronic book) |
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022625318X (electronic book) |
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9780226252995 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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022625299X (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780226253046 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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022625304X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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