Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India

By Mary Elizabeth Hancock

In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created, deployed, and objectified by Tamil Brahmans as they produce their own class, gender, national, and sect

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367314002
• ISBN13: 9780367314002
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"