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  • Frobenius-Institut  (4)
  • 2015-2019  (4)
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press  (3)
  • New Delhi : Oxford University Press
  • Frau  (4)
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    Within the limits : moral boundaries of class and gender in urban India (2018)
    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-947742-5 , 0-19-947742-6
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 256 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Telangana ; Mittelklasse ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Wertvorstellung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Soziale Klasse ; Sozialer Status ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Moral ; Kosmopolitismus ; Lebensstil ; Kastenwesen ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Neoliberalismus ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Hyderabad 〈Indien〉
    Abstract: Drawing on twelve months of fieldwork in suburban Hyderabad, India, this thesis contributes to emerging debates on the Indian new middle classes and postcolonial middle classes more generally. I challenge images of a homogenous middle class enjoying the benefits of liberalization by highlighting the diversity in wealth, lifestyle and access to opportunities within this class sector. Contrary to the pervasive image of a hedonistic and morally corrupt new middle class, I assert the centrality of moral discourses to the construction of middle-class identity in Hyderabad. Middle-class Hyderabadis engage in moral discourses of 'respectability' and 'open- mindedness' in relation to caste, consumption, education, and women's public and domestic roles. These discourses of morality are central to the reproduction of class and gender inequality as successfully balancing the demands of respectability and open-mindedness is particularly difficult for those with fewer resources such as the lower middle class and for women who are expected to embody authentic Indianness in their demure comportment, 'traditional' attire and commitment to 'Indian' family values, but are also liable to being judged 'backward' if their clothing and lack of education and paid employment are seen to be in conflict with fashion and open-mindedness. The focus on balance and compromise in middle-class Hyderabadis' narratives echoes other work on postcolonial middle classes that has emphasised people's efforts to adhere to local notions of respectable behaviour that are central to national identities while also attempting to align themselves with a 'modern' global consumer culture. In contrast to much of this literature, however, I challenge the notion that modernity and tradition, the local and the global are objects of desire in and of themselves and instead argue that they function as important reference points in discourses that legitimate the dominant position of men and those of upper class-caste status.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 206-226 , Thesis (Ph.D.), Oxford University, 2012
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    Ethno-erotic economies : sexuality, money, and belonging in Kenya (2017)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-49117-2 , 978-0-226-49103-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 315 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Kenia ; Europa ; Samburu ; Ethnizität ; Mann ; Frau ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Heirat ; Familie ; Sexualität ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
    Abstract: Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases for long-term relationships.George Paul Meiu uses his deep familiarity with the communities these men come from to explore the long-term effects of markets of ethnic culture and sexuality on a wide range of aspects of life in rural Kenya, including kinship, ritual, gender, intimate affection, and conceptions of aging. What happens to these communities when young men return with such surprising wealth? And how do they use it to improve their social standing locally? By answering these questions, Ethno-erotic Economies offers a complex look at how intimacy and ethnicity come together to shape the pathways of global and local trade in the postcolonial world.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [279]-295
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    Mothers on the move : reproducing belonging between Africa and Europe (2016)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-38988-2 , 978-0-226-38974-5 , 978-0-226-38991-2/ebk
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 243 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Keywords: Deutschland Afrika ; Kamerun ; Identität ; Migration ; Psychologie ; Afrikaner ; Frau ; Mutterschaft ; Integration ; Familie
    Abstract: The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explore how migrant mothers through the careful and at times difficult management of relationships juggle belonging in multiple places at once: their new country, their old country, and the diasporic community that bridges them.Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives at a hometown association s year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners Office, and many others as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women s individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-237
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    We were adivasis : aspiration in an Indian scheduled tribe (2015)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-25304-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 217 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Keywords: Indien Oraon ; Adivasi ; Ethnie, Indien ; Frau ; Kulturwandel ; Ethnologie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Stammesgesellschaft
    Abstract: 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 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.
    Description / Table of 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.
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