Death, Beauty, Struggle
Margaret Trawick
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Description for Death, Beauty, Struggle
Hardcover. Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Death, Beauty, Struggle represents a long labor of love and the summation of forty years of Margaret Trawick's groundbreaking research. Centering her gaze on the lowest castes of India, now called Dalits, she describes the experience of women at this precarious level who are still treated as sub-human, sometimes by family members, sometimes by higher-caste men. Their private worlds, however, are full of art; rural Dalit women sing beautiful songs of their own making and tell remarkable narratives of their own lives.
Much that Tamil women shared with Trawick is rooted in the passionate attachments and acute wounds generated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812249057
SKU
V9780812249057
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About Margaret Trawick
Margaret Trawick is Professor of Social Anthropology Emerita, Massey University, New Zealand.
Reviews for Death, Beauty, Struggle
"This is the work of the most important anthropologist working in South India and Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka in the past fifty years."
Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin
"This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical ... Read more
Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin
"This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical ... Read more