Dissertation Research: Women's Worlds Among the Kalasha of Northwestern Pakistan: Subordination, Empowerment, and the Menstrual House

巴基斯坦西北部的卡拉沙人认为经期屋是山谷中最不洁净的地方。然而，正是这种制度似乎赋予了卡拉沙妇女权力，为她们提供了一个机会，以一种似乎直接反对主流意识形态的方式来定义自己。拟议的研究通过检查性别在三个不同领域的构建和使用方式来探索这种紧张关系：社区仪式实践，房屋和家庭的日常世界，以及bashali，或月经之家。通过仔细追踪个体女性在这些社会背景下的移动，研究者将评估性别意义和实践在社会领域系统变化的论文。我假设，男性对女性不洁的坚持及其在女性从属实践中的影响将在社区仪式实践中得到最强调，在村庄和家庭关系中不那么明显，并与女性中心意识形态以及女性在经期之家的权力和自主权的表达强烈对抗。这种语境差异对“女性地位”或“身份”的单一归因提出了质疑，并提供了对女性经历如何构成的更复杂和深入的理解。拟议的项目将大大有助于对兴都库什文化地区更平衡的民族志理解，将应用和完善性别的社会文化理论，并将提供关于月经屋的详细民族志信息，以及一直幻想但没有仔细研究的机构。*** Q QcS S S S T TzUsW ~O!!!S Times New Roman Symbol & & Arial 1 press Elite 5 Courier New & & & &； Casablanca新& & & & & & & & # e knauft maggi抽象的抽象的奖抽象的knauft maggi雷蒙德·詹姆斯雷蒙德·詹姆斯

Knauft/Maggi 9307296 The Kalasha of northwestern Pakistan consider the menstrual house to be the most impure place in the valley. Yet this very institution seems to empower Kalasha women, offering them an opportunity to define themselves in ways which seem to directly oppose dominant ideologies. The proposed research explores this tension by examining the way in which gender is constructed and used in three distinct arenas: community ritual practice, the everyday world of house and family, and the bashali, or menstrual house. Through carefully tracing individual women as they move through these social contexts, the investigator will evaluate the thesis that gendered meanings and practices vary systematically across social arenas. I hypothesize that male insistence on female impurity and its entailments in female subordinate practice will be most emphasized in community ritual practice, less evident in village and household relations, and strongly countered with female-centric ideology and expressions of women's power and autonomy in the menstrual house. This contextual variation calls into question monolithic attributions of "female status" or "identity" and provides for a more complex and penetrating understanding of how women's experiences are constituted. The proposed project will contribute significantly to a more balanced ethnographic understanding of the Hindu Kush cultural region, will apply and refine sociocultural theories of gender, and will provide detailed ethnographic information on the menstrual house, and institution which has been much fantasized about but not carefully studied. *** Q QcS S S S T TzUsW ~ Õ ! ! ! F l l S Times New Roman Symbol & Arial 1 Pres Elite 5 Courier New & Casablanca l " h % % d e knauft maggi abstract abstract award abstract knauft maggi Raymond Hames Raymond Hames