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Narrating Love and Violence : Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India / Himika Bhattacharya.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (220 p.) : 6 photographs, 2 maps, 2 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813589541
  • 9780813589572
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.40954 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1745.L34 B43 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: From Fieldwork to Lifework -- 1. Crossing the Top -- 2. Shades of Wildness -- 3. Storied Lives -- 4. Narrating Love -- 5. Magic Tricks -- 6. Remembering for Love -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I: Genealogy of Previous Work -- Appendix II: First Information Reports -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women's stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and community discourses about gendered violence serve as proxy for caste in India, thus not only upholding these social hierarchies, but also enabling violence. The women in this book tell their stories through love, articulated as rejection, redefinition and reproduction of notions of violence and solidarity. Himika Bhattacharya centers the women's narratives as a site of knowledge-beyond love and beyond violence. This book shows how women on the margins of tribe and caste know both, love and violence, as agents wishing to re-shape discourses of caste, tribe and community.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: From Fieldwork to Lifework -- 1. Crossing the Top -- 2. Shades of Wildness -- 3. Storied Lives -- 4. Narrating Love -- 5. Magic Tricks -- 6. Remembering for Love -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I: Genealogy of Previous Work -- Appendix II: First Information Reports -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women's stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and community discourses about gendered violence serve as proxy for caste in India, thus not only upholding these social hierarchies, but also enabling violence. The women in this book tell their stories through love, articulated as rejection, redefinition and reproduction of notions of violence and solidarity. Himika Bhattacharya centers the women's narratives as a site of knowledge-beyond love and beyond violence. This book shows how women on the margins of tribe and caste know both, love and violence, as agents wishing to re-shape discourses of caste, tribe and community.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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