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- Narrating Love and Violence: Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- 1. Crossing the Top
- pp. 9-39
- 2. Shades of Wildness
- pp. 40-62
- 3. Storied Lives
- pp. 63-81
- 4. Narrating Love
- pp. 82-102
- 5. Magic Tricks
- pp. 103-124
- 6. Remembering for Love
- pp. 125-147
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 159-160
- Appendix I: Genealogy of Previous Work
- pp. 161-166
- Appendix II: First Information Reports
- pp. 167-172
- References
- pp. 187-198
- About the Author
- pp. 207-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813589572
Related ISBN(s)
9780813589541
MARC Record
OCLC
1012850473
Pages
236
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-29
Language
English
Open Access
No