United States: Indiana University Press, 2006. First Edition. Black and white illustrations, xix + 294pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, appendix, light pencil marking throughout, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, still a good paperback copy. "In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought..... More
United States: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994. Map, 214pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to..... More
Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Inc, 2010. 153pp, index, very good paperback copy. In an intimate and revealing ethnographic study, Sunil K. Khanna, Ph.D., reflects on his role during fieldwork in India as a 'native' anthropologist, examines the historical and cultural underpinnings of son preference, and considers why this preference..... More
United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Black and white plans, viii + 345pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket edges slightly bent, pencil markings throughout text, prior owner's name front free endpapers, overall a very good copy. This volume deals with multiple sites of production of education including the homes and..... More
New Delhi. Munshiram Manoharlal. 1994. First Indian edition. Black and white illustrations, xiv + 260pp, index, bibliography, appendices, glossary, price-clipped dustjacket with sunned spine and lightly worn extremities, good hardback copy. "In the present work, the authoress explores the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput women..... More
Durham. Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 284, index, bibliography, notes. Very good paperback copy. "Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between 'midnight's children', who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism..... More
United States: Cengage Learning, Inc, 1998. Second edition. Map, colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 186pp, index, references, notes, glossary, lightly sunned spine, a very good paperback copy. This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It..... More
New Delhi. SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2012. Map, xxxi + 182pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the..... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 2006. Map, 151pp, index, boards a little faded in places, good hardback copy. Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1993. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 153pp, index, paperback, a good copy. An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of 'reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the 'third world woman' as victim..... More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1996. 301pp, bibliography, index, good hardback copy in dustjacket. Three newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Collection of eight essays which examine the lives and teachings of female saints throughout history. This book also examines general principles regarding the worship of Krishma and how such principles impact on the..... More
Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 1975. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, 205pp, index, references, notes, appendices, bookplate front free endpaper, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, dustjacket worn and a little faded, a clean and sound copy. 22 x 15cm. "The revealing study illuminates the disparity between the..... More
London. Zed Books Ltd., 1989. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustration, vii + 290, glossary, upper edge slightly browned, prior owner's pencil notes back free endpaper, minor wear on head and tail of spine, overall a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176815..... More
London. Tavistock. 1983. Maps, 226pp, glossary, indices, paperback, some underlining in both biro and pencil, neat name of a prior owner front free endpaper. "Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in two Indian villages, this book contains substantial new ethnographic material on the lives of rural Indian women, from..... More
Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. First Edition. Maps, black and White illustrations, 293pp, index, bibliography, notes on transliteration, paperback, a very good copy. 26.8 x 18.3cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176546. More
