eprintid: 10671
rev_number: 6
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dir: disk0/00/01/06/71
datestamp: 2010-05-31 13:07:26
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type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Polit, Karin Margret
title: Keep My Share of Rice in the Cupboard : ethnographic reflections on practices of gender and agency among Dalit women in the Central Himalayas
title_de: Halte meinen Anteil Reis immer für mich bereit
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-390
divisions: i-100700
adv_faculty: af-10
keywords: anthropology of youth , anthropology of women , anthropology of childhood , ritual healing
cterms_swd: Uttarakhanda
cterms_swd: Garhwal
cterms_swd: Butler, Judith / Gender trouble
cterms_swd: Geschlechterforschung
cterms_swd: Paria
cterms_swd: Ritual
cterms_swd: Rituelle Magie
abstract: The book illuminates various performative practices in Judith Butler's sense which construct gender as integral parts of  everyday and ritual practices and are a constitutional of people’s gendered habitus. It describes in detail how low-caste (Mistari, Lohari and Tamta) women in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India are able to exercise agency while being restricted and restrained by a complicated net of power-relations. Based on extensive ethnographic research in the villages of Chamoli, a high altitude district in the Central Himalayas of North India, the author examines women’s songs, ordinary conversations, my ethnographic observations and especially the stories women told me about themselves, in order to understand what shapes their lives and how female agency – that is, their ability to shape their lives – is constituted and restricted through habitus, gender performativity, and performances of gender. 
abstract_translated_text: Die Arbeit untersucht in einer Butler'schen Analyse verschiedene performative Praktiken welche Gender in Zusammenhang mit alltäglichen und rituellen Praktiken schaffen und einen geschlechtsspezifischen Habitus hervorbringen, der wiederum den Alltag bestimmt. Die Ethnographie beschreibt im Detail wie Frauen aus den unteren Kasten (Mistari, Lohar und Tamta) in Uttarakhand, einem nördlichen Bundesstaates Indiens ihre eigene Handlungsmacht immer wieder neu aushandeln und positionieren. Verstrickt in der Netz komplizierter Machtstrukturen leben sie ein stolzes und ehrbares Leben. 
abstract_translated_lang: ger
date: 2006
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00010671
ppn_swb: 627742289
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106717
date_accepted: 2006-06-23
advisor: HASH(0x55d997c73a50)
language: eng
bibsort: POLITKARINKEEPMYSHAR2006
full_text_status: public
citation:   Polit, Karin Margret  (2006) Keep My Share of Rice in the Cupboard : ethnographic reflections on practices of gender and agency among Dalit women in the Central Himalayas.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10671/1/Thesisphd.pdf