Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 172746 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maya Unnithan-Kumar |
| NOMBRES | Maya |
| APELLIDO | Unnithan-Kumar |
| FIRMA | UNNITHAN-KUMAR M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Gender and ‘Tribal’ Identity in Western India
Most studies of tribal communities in India emphasise their social, political and economic distinction from caste groups. Such representations are rarely based on members' own accounts of their history and experiences and are thus open to processes of ‘othering’ and erasure. Representations of tribal women are especially symbolic of the ways in which tribes have come to be regarded as distinct from caste groups. Based on ethnographic research wit…
Critical Journeys
Sensing the Field
The significance of exploring the field in terms of interpersonal understandings also emerges strongly as a focus in recent writing about anthropological fieldwork and knowledge creation. This chapter examines the framework of kinship and relatedness to explore how as anthropologists we become intimately connected to fields and the significant role such connections play in analytic preoccupations. It argues elsewhere a focus on emotion also leads…
Female selective abortion – beyond ‘culture’
There is an emerging global discourse on female selective abortion (FSA) as several Asian countries witness an increasing imbalance in their sex ratios in favour of boys. While there is an attendant increase in demographic and social surveys on the issue, little is understood about FSA as either a desired or contested practice of family making in the contexts in which it is practiced. Drawing on the accounts of feminists, doctors and lower, middl…
Spirits of the womb
In this article I focus on the connections between poor women's migration to a basti in Jaipur city in north-west India and their reproductive anxieties, agency and outcomes. I suggest that, in terms of their reproductive choice and freedom, women's experience of migration is highly ambivalent. Three main consequences of women's migration account for this ambivalence: (a) a shift in gender roles, conjugal relationships and related expectations of…
The State, Rajput Identity and Women's Agency in 19th and 20th Century Rajasthan
Drawing on historical and ethnographic material on lower-class Rajput women, this paper evaluates the their impact in transforming gender roles and relationships in rural Rajasthan. It focuses on the individual and collective agency of Rajput women and the role of the state in the promotion of gender-specific identities in Rajasthan, India. Overall, it is noted that the Rajputs have had a tremendous influence on the culture, customs and tradition…
Identity, Gender and Poverty
Spirits of the womb
In this article I focus on the connections between poor women's migration to a basti in Jaipur city in north-west India and their reproductive anxieties, agency and outcomes. I suggest that, in terms of their reproductive choice and freedom, women's experience of migration is highly ambivalent. Three main consequences of women's migration account for this ambivalence: (a) a shift in gender roles, conjugal relationships and related expectations of…
The State, Rajput Identity and Women's Agency in 19th and 20th Century Rajasthan
Drawing on historical and ethnographic material on lower-class Rajput women, this paper evaluates the their impact in transforming gender roles and relationships in rural Rajasthan. It focuses on the individual and collective agency of Rajput women and the role of the state in the promotion of gender-specific identities in Rajasthan, India. Overall, it is noted that the Rajputs have had a tremendous influence on the culture, customs and tradition…
Identity, Gender and Poverty
Identity, Gender and Poverty
The State, Rajput Identity and Women's Agency in 19th and 20th Century Rajasthan
Drawing on historical and ethnographic material on lower-class Rajput women, this paper evaluates the their impact in transforming gender roles and relationships in rural Rajasthan. It focuses on the individual and collective agency of Rajput women and the role of the state in the promotion of gender-specific identities in Rajasthan, India. Overall, it is noted that the Rajputs have had a tremendous influence on the culture, customs and tradition…
Spirits of the womb
In this article I focus on the connections between poor women's migration to a basti in Jaipur city in north-west India and their reproductive anxieties, agency and outcomes. I suggest that, in terms of their reproductive choice and freedom, women's experience of migration is highly ambivalent. Three main consequences of women's migration account for this ambivalence: (a) a shift in gender roles, conjugal relationships and related expectations of…
Female selective abortion – beyond ‘culture’
There is an emerging global discourse on female selective abortion (FSA) as several Asian countries witness an increasing imbalance in their sex ratios in favour of boys. While there is an attendant increase in demographic and social surveys on the issue, little is understood about FSA as either a desired or contested practice of family making in the contexts in which it is practiced. Drawing on the accounts of feminists, doctors and lower, middl…
Critical Journeys
Sensing the Field
The significance of exploring the field in terms of interpersonal understandings also emerges strongly as a focus in recent writing about anthropological fieldwork and knowledge creation. This chapter examines the framework of kinship and relatedness to explore how as anthropologists we become intimately connected to fields and the significant role such connections play in analytic preoccupations. It argues elsewhere a focus on emotion also leads…
Gender and ‘Tribal’ Identity in Western India
Most studies of tribal communities in India emphasise their social, political and economic distinction from caste groups. Such representations are rarely based on members' own accounts of their history and experiences and are thus open to processes of ‘othering’ and erasure. Representations of tribal women are especially symbolic of the ways in which tribes have come to be regarded as distinct from caste groups. Based on ethnographic research wit…
Sociology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Agency (philosophy (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras)