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Article: Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste and Class in Rural South India.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Starting from James Scott's notion of everyday forms of resistance, this book aims to demonstrate how low-caste peoples near the city of Thanjavur in the state of Tamilnadu in southern India resist and reject high-caste interpretations and views of themselves and the word more generally Moreover, Kapadia is careful to present not only low-caste male views of kinship, ritual, sexuality and production, but also female views, showing that gender intersects with class and caste in producing both opposition and consciousness. Lurking behind kinship, religion and sexual ideologies is the fact that low-caste women, not men, are responsible for the survival of their families: women ...