Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
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听苍鹭的话：重新想象北印度的性别和亲属关系
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1994
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A. Gold
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G. Raheja;A. Gold
这本书探讨了印度北部农村社区妇女所使用的表达体裁，以抵制和批评普遍存在的性别和亲属关系意识形态，使妇女处于从属地位。对歌曲和个人叙述的翻译揭示了妇女语言类型中蕴含的深刻的文化异议。民族志分析：1）评论当前试图重新定义社会科学中“文化”一词的使用; 2）探索女性表达中隐含的“隐藏的抄本”; 3）引发对南亚婚姻和父系的标准人类学概念化的重新思考; 4）将对女性言语类型的考虑与语言和性别之间更广泛的关系联系起来。这本书以序言开始，描述了实地工作，社会接受妇女的程度和类型，以及美国妇女试图描述和分析来自外来文化的妇女生活所面临的挑战。导言一章考虑了印度的性别代表性以及语言和抵抗问题。第二章探讨拉贾斯坦邦妇女歌曲中的性、生育力和色情意象。第三章探讨了反讽和歧义的使用，以改变对父系和纳塔尔亲属关系的看法。第四章分析了挑战妇女作为妻子的贬值的歌曲，并提出了对婚姻亲属关系的不同观点。第五章讨论了“丛林女王”的故事如何提供了对女性身份如何被视为分裂（例如，从她的纳塔尔家庭），但在她的一生中保持完整的见解。第六章讲述了一个说书人的生活，重新审视了女性对深闺和权力的看法。最后一章反思了叙事的力量和女性表达传统的政治。
This book examines the expressive genres used by women living in rural communities in north India to resist and criticize pervasive ideologies of gender and kinship that subordinate women. Translations of songs and of personal narratives reveal the profound cultural dissent embedded in womens speech genres. The ethnographic analyses 1) comment on current attempts to redefine use of the term "culture" by the social sciences 2) explore the "hidden transcripts" implicit in womens expressions 3) spark a reconsideration of standard anthropological conceptualizations of marriage and patrilineality in South Asia and 4) relate this consideration of womens speech genres to the broader relationship between language and gender. The book opens with a preface that describes the field work the degree and type of social acceptance offered to the women and the challenges posed to American women attempting to describe and analyze the lives of women from an alien culture. The introductory chapter considers gender representation and the problem of language and resistance in India. Chapter 2 looks at sexuality fertility and erotic imagery in the songs of Rajasthani women. The third chapter examines the uses of irony and ambiguity to shift perspectives on patriliny and ties to natal kin. Chapter 4 analyzes songs that challenge the devaluation of women as wives and present different perspectives on conjugal kinship relations. The fifth chapter discusses how the story of a "jungle queen" provides insights into how female identity can be perceived of as split (from her natal family for example) and yet remain whole throughout her life. Chapter 6 provides a narrative about a storytellers life to reexamine womens perceptions of purdah and power. The concluding chapter reflects on the potency of narrative and on the politics of womens expressive traditions.