Cultures of servitude
modernity, domesticity, and class in India
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Author
Contributions
- Qayum, Seemin. - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California
Language
English
Word Count
63,750 words, Guess
Page Count
255 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780804760713
- ISBN-139780804760720
- ISBN-100804760713
- ISBN-100804760721
- LibraryThing8443459
and 8 more
- Goodreads6543887
- Library of Congress Control Number2008046378
- OCLC Control Number270230958
- Better World BooksKQ-955-904
- Better World Books9780804760720
- Better World Books9780804760713
- Better World BooksW7-ATV-062
- Open LibraryOL22671693M
Classifications
- DDC640/.460954
- LCCHD8039.D52 .R39 2009
- LCCHD8039
and 2 more
- LCCHD8039.D52 R39 2009
- LCCHD8039 .R39 2009
Description
Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere. This book shifts the conversations surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants grapple with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality.--
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