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

Knauft/Maggi 9307296 巴基斯坦西北部的卡拉沙人认为月经房是山谷中最不纯洁的地方。 然而，这个机构似乎赋予了卡拉夏妇女权力，为她们提供了一个机会，以似乎直接反对主流意识形态的方式来定义自己。 拟议中的研究探讨了这种紧张局势，通过研究性别的构建和使用在三个不同的舞台：社区仪式实践，日常世界的房子和家庭，和bashali，或月经的房子。 通过仔细跟踪个别妇女，因为他们通过这些社会背景下移动，调查员将评估的论文，性别的含义和做法在社会舞台上系统地变化。 我假设，男性坚持女性的不洁和其蕴涵在女性下属的做法将最强调在社区仪式的做法，不太明显的村庄和家庭关系，并强烈反对以女性为中心的意识形态和表达妇女的权力和自主权的月经房子。 这种背景变化使人们对“女性地位”或“身份”的单一属性提出了质疑，并对妇女的经历是如何构成的提供了更复杂和更深入的理解。 拟议的项目将大大有助于对兴都库什文化地区进行更平衡的民族志理解，将应用和完善性别的社会文化理论，并将提供关于月经房和机构的详细民族志资料，这些机构一直被幻想但没有仔细研究。 *** Q QcS S S S T TzUsW ~ Õ ! ! ! F L L S Times New Roman Symbol Arial 1 Pres Elite 5 Cash New卡萨布兰卡 L " H % % D e knauft maggi abstract abstract award abstract knauft maggi Raymond Hames Raymond Hames

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