We Were Adivasis : Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe / Megan Moodie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moodie, Megan, Author.

Series:

South Asia across the disciplines.

South Asia Across the Disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oraon (Indic people)--India--Jaipur.

Oraon (Indic people).

Women, Adivasi--India--Jaipur--Social conditions.

Women, Adivasi.

Jaipur (India)--Scheduled tribes.

Jaipur (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 "as 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 required 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Who Are the Dhanka?

3. What It Takes

4. A Good Woman

5. A Traffic in Marriage

6. Wedding Ambivalence

7. Of Contracts and Kaliyuga

8. Conclusion: On Collective Aspiration

A Short Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226253183

022625318X

OCLC:

912878505