1st Edition
Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India Women in the Field
Introduction
1. Traversing the otaak: Gendered fieldwork and boundaries of language
Rita Kothari
2. Familiar domesticity, unfamiliar homes: Ethnography among the homeless homemakers of Ahmedabad
Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee
3. Knowing and the production of knowledge: Sharing the field with Bengali women
Lina M. Fruzzetti
4. Witnessing vulnerability and the vulnerable witness: Gendering emotions in fieldwork
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
5. Bengali daughter, Bengali child: The roles and routes to understanding childhood
Hia Sen
6. Forging identities, rethinking culture: Field work ‘among’ ‘South Asians’ in my backyard and across the oceans
Maitrayee Chaudhuri
7. A gendered field in a transnational setting: Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis
Inês Lourenco and Rita Cachado
8. Notes from the field: Dalit Women and the ambiguity of anthropological analysis
Rosa Maria Perez
9. Fenceless Fields
Swarna Rajagopalan
As a conclusion
Biography
Rosa Maria Perez is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, and a guest professor of Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.
Lina M. Fruzzetti is an anthropologist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
