Amrapali Maitra
Biographic Data
| ID | 371231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amrapali Maitra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amrapali |
| FAMILY NAME | Maitra |
| SIGNATURE | MAITRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St Boston Massachusetts 02115 United States of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9781-2440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Most Beloved Cow in Gokulpur
During ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal, India, I witnessed the comingling of disgust and desire in shaping religious identity, the effervescent force of crowds, and moments of ordinary ethics enacted through labor. This short story is set in a fictional town: Gokulpur is a microcosm of the tension between rural idiosyncrasies and urban aspirations in India, permeated by growing right-wing Hindu sentiments. Through the evolving relationship …
The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic
Unspeakability is a dominant analytic lens in scholarship on gendered violence in India, but women can and do speak out. This article examines how Bengali women complain about domestic violence throughpeter katha, the belly's word. The capaciouspet(belly) is the seat of tension, where abuse dwells in the body. At a clinic in Kolkata, India, women describe sensations of abdominal pain, pressure, and hunger to convey patterns and temporalities of v…
The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic
Unspeakability is a dominant analytic lens in scholarship on gendered violence in India, but women can and do speak out. This article examines how Bengali women complain about domestic violence throughpeter katha, the belly's word. The capaciouspet(belly) is the seat of tension, where abuse dwells in the body. At a clinic in Kolkata, India, women describe sensations of abdominal pain, pressure, and hunger to convey patterns and temporalities of v…
The Most Beloved Cow in Gokulpur
During ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal, India, I witnessed the comingling of disgust and desire in shaping religious identity, the effervescent force of crowds, and moments of ordinary ethics enacted through labor. This short story is set in a fictional town: Gokulpur is a microcosm of the tension between rural idiosyncrasies and urban aspirations in India, permeated by growing right-wing Hindu sentiments. Through the evolving relationship …
The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic
Unspeakability is a dominant analytic lens in scholarship on gendered violence in India, but women can and do speak out. This article examines how Bengali women complain about domestic violence throughpeter katha, the belly's word. The capaciouspet(belly) is the seat of tension, where abuse dwells in the body. At a clinic in Kolkata, India, women describe sensations of abdominal pain, pressure, and hunger to convey patterns and temporalities of v…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)