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Autonomy: life cycle, gender, and status among Himalayan pastoralists/ Aparna Rao

By: Rao, AparnaMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Berghahn Books, 1998Description: xvii, 350 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9781571819031Subject(s): Muslims -- Jammu and Kashmir | Social conditions | Individuality | Manners and customs | Himalaya Mountains RegionDDC classification: 306.089914

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.089914 RAO/A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10820

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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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