Unearthing gender

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Review. “ Unearthing Gender is a welcome addition to literature on South Asian gender and folklore. Jassal writes with compassion and with technical rigor—with an eye for poetry and an appreciation for the power of performance.

She is clearly moved by the creativity and artistry of the performers with whom she worked, Cited by: This book is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings.

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Songs can be regarded as a reserve pool of folk resources and wisdom that people may draw upon to reflect on, and understand and struggle with, their own realities. A central concern of this book is to inves- tigate how women’s work songs become vehicles for the construction and reproduction of gender identity.

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Résumé. This book is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings. BibliographyAbu-LughodLila. “Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions.” In Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, edited by Abu-L.

Unearthing gender issues. astonishing leap of faith for those who have advocated a greater appreciation for the variability and malleability of gender roles elsewhere in the book. The Cited by: 1. Unearthing Gender is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings.

Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to explore how ideas of caste, gender, sexuality, labor, and power may be strengthened, questioned, and fine-tuned. first presented the ideas developed in chapters 3 and 4 at the ‘‘Gender and Development: Perspectives From India’’ conference held at the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 18 October Selected themes from the book were also presented at.

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By Smita Tewari Jassal. Durham: Duke University Press, [xv, p. ISBN $] Bibliography, index. Reviewed by Rehanna Kheshgi. Researchers in music, folklore, and anthropology have long recognized folk song repertories as valuable sources to collect, analyze, and interpret.

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Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India eBook: Smita Tewari Jassal: : Kindle Store. With empathy and insight, Jassal shows in Unearthing Gender how songs must be understood in light of gender constructions framed by agricultural relations between castes, forms of labor, and rights to land.

Unearthing Gender is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings. Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to explore how ideas of caste, gender, sexuality, labor, and power may be strengthened, questioned, and fine-tuned through music.

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