Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in a Teapot, Chaudhuri Soma

Автор: Chaudhuri Soma
Название: Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in I
ISBN: 0739149946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739149942
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Описание: Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in Teapot is a unique book that brings together a holistic theoretical approach on the subject of witchcraft accusations, specifically those taking place inside a tea workers' community in India. Using a combination of in-depth and extensive qualitative methods, and drawing on sociological, anthropological, and historical perspectives, Chaudhuri explores how adivasi (tribal) migrant workers use witchcraft accusations to deal with worker-management conflict. Chaudhuri argues that witchcraft accusations can be interpreted as a periodic reaction of the adivasi worker community against their oppression by the plantation management. The typical avenues of social protest are often unavailable to marginalized workers due to lack of organizational and political representation and resources. As a result, the dain (witch) becomes a scapegoat for the malice of the plantation economy. Within this discourse, witch hunts can be seen not as exotic and primitive rituals of a backward community, but rather as a powerful protest by a community against its oppressors. The book attempts to understand the complex network of relationships--ties of friendship, family, politics, and gender--that provide the necessary legitimacy for the witch hunt to take place. In most cases examined here, seemingly petty conflicts within the villagers often escalate to a hunt. At the height of the conflict, the exploitative relationship between the plantation management and the adivasi migrant workers often gets hidden. The book demonstrates how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within this backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity of power, patronage, and social distance. Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India should appeal to criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, labor historians, gender scholars, labor migration scholars, witch hunt and witchcraft accusation global scholars, adivasi scholars, South Asian scholars, and anyone interested in India's tribes, witchcraft accusations, gender in a global world, labor conflict, and Indian tea plantations.

Автор: Chaudhuri
Название: Freedom Song
ISBN: 0375704000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375704000
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: This novel is set in Calcutta in 1993 and focusses on the lives of two families and the culture and character of the city itself.

Автор: Chaudhuri, Nirad C.
Название: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
ISBN: 094032282X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940322820
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Describing his childhood in the Bengali countryside and his youth in Calcutta--and telling the story of modern India from his own fiercely independent viewpoint--Chaudhuri fashions a book of deep conviction, charm, and intimacy that is also a masterpiece of the writer's art.

Автор: Chaudhuri Amit
Название: Odysseus Abroad
ISBN: 1780747446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780747446
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: A brilliant exposition of loneliness, failure and the experience of living as a foreigner abroad in Thatcher`s Britain