Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta
Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta
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依赖性与自主:加尔各答妇女的就业和家庭
DOI:
10.2307/2058916
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
H. Standing
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文献类型:
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作者:
D. Indra;H. Standing
work), it is difficult to use. Much of the information is taken from other sources, with acknowledgment, but with little concern for the change of context. In fact, the author appears simply to have accumulated information on Baluchistan "over decades of study, beginning with graduate work at the University of London between 1955 and 1959" (pxv), organized it according to a conventional classification of knowledge, and sent it to a publisher who would not look too closely into it. It shows no originality or evidence of independent thinking. For example, he repeats the common modern characterization of Baluchistan as "lying on the western borderlands of Pakistan" (p. xv), even though it occupies over 40 percent of the country. He considers it necessary "to understand the Baluchis' ingrained memories of 5,000 years of struggle for survival in this harsh physical environment" (p. 14), yet most scholars consider that the Baluch arrived in the area during the medieval period and that agricultural settlement was probably more important in the larger economy prior to their arrival than since—see, for example, the references in the articles on Baluchistan in the Encyclopaedia Iranka. Far from giving any impression of the great variation in natural conditions and basic economy, let alone culture and language, Siddiqi writes about "the Baluch race" (p. 18).