TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao, Aparna
TI  - Autonomy: life cycle, gender, and status among Himalayan pastoralists
SN  - 9781571819031
U1  - 306.089914 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Jammu and Kashmir
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Individuality
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Himalaya Mountains Region
N1  - The Spider in the Web --
Agency--Whose, and How Much? --
Self, Person, Individual --
Self and Selfhood --
Person --
Individual --
The Individual in South Asia --
The Life-Course Perspective --
A Comparative Approach --
Fieldwork --
The Ethnographer at Home --
Tension and Contradiction --
A Note on Style --
Coming into Being --
Being Conceived --
A Question of Transmission --
The Milk-Blood Equation --
Authenticity and the Moral Order --
Being and Well-being --
Being Born --
The Dangerous and the Endangered --
Growing into Society --
Becoming a Person --
Acquiring a Label --
Age and Its Implications --
Manners and Morals --
The Symbols of the Head --
The Body and Social Space --
The Autonomy of the Coddled --
The Daily Routines of Play and Work --
The Acquisition of Knowledge and Information --
The Internalisation of "Backwardness" --
The End of Tending --
A Prelude to Puberty --
The Rising of Fluids --
The Spoiling of Clothes --
Producing Norms --
Units of Identity --
The Accountability of Endogamy --
Levels of Marrying "One's Own" --
Choosing a Spouse --
The Time to Go Asking --
The Rituals of Asking and Receiving --
The Marital Process --
The Wedding --
Taking Leave --
The Return of the Virgin --
The Final Send-Off --
Perpetuating Life and Producing Values --
The Desire to Beget --
Regulating Reproduction --
"Having Another in One" --
Bringing into the World --
Becoming a Parent --
Counting (on) Children --
The Incipient Herder-Householder --
The dera --
The Use of Time --
A Question of Achievement
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