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Fertility and Familial Power Relations

Procreation in South India

By: Minna Saavala

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Fertility and Familial Power Relations

Procreation in South India

By: Minna Saavala

Describes and analyses the corollaries of declining fertility in Southern India to discover how familial and gender relations are affected by the new situation of women giving birth only to 2-3 children.

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Routledge

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1136856633

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9781136856631

An Introduction to Changing India

Culture, Politics and Development

By: Sirpa Tenhunen,Minna Säävälä

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An Introduction to Changing India

Culture, Politics and Development

By: Sirpa Tenhunen,Minna Säävälä

“An Introduction to Changing India” provides a comprehensive view of the rapid changes occurring in India, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, economics and technology, population, environmental issues and gender. Having carried out anthropological research on kinship, gender issues, politics, class and caste, population issues and the appropriation of information technology in India since the 1990s, the authors draw from their own fieldwork and extensive reading of research reports in order to provide a comprehensive picture of Indian life.

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216

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Anthem Press

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085728827X

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9780857288271

Middle-class Moralities

Everyday Struggle Over Belonging and Prestige in India

By: Minna Säävälä

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Middle-class Moralities

Everyday Struggle Over Belonging and Prestige in India

By: Minna Säävälä

New middle-classes present themselves as the epitome of modernity and progress. Both in their role as social models and culture-brokers, they seem to promote a heightened consciousness of cultural difference and nationalism. Middle-Class Moralities examines how the new middle classes of India create identities, practices and politics of the everyday in a dialogue that involves other social categories and an imaginary West. Drawing upon ethnographic and interview material, this book studies family relations, leisure, food, housing and religious practices of these emerging and enterprising social classes. Defining the middle classes is a political and embodied process that people negotiate by making instrumental use of (or domesticating) the idea of the West. A closer and analytical look at the consumption-driven, status-obsessed middle classes reveals their deeper struggles that seek to engage such cultural concepts as dharma, purity, and auspiciousness. The fieldwork for this study was conducted mainly in the city of Hyderabad among its upwardly mobile people who have identified themselves as Hindus. The Indian situation, argues the author, is comparable to that of the urban middle classes elsewhere, especially those of the traditionally hierarchical Asian societies. The dilemmas of these classes in a fast-globalizing India have seldom been given the detailed attention offered in these pages.

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8125037896

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9788125037897

Fertility and Familial Power Relations

Procreation in South India

By: Minna Saavala

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1136856706

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9781136856709

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Fertility and Familial Power Relations

Fertility and Familial Power Relations

An Introduction to Changing India

An Introduction to Changing India

Middle-class Moralities

Middle-class Moralities

Fertility and Familial Power Relations

Fertility and Familial Power Relations

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