Women, wellbeing, and the ethics of domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town
This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India. It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of human wellbeing among this categor...
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Main Author: | Menon, Usha. |
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Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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India ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
India ; New York : [2013] |
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1 online resource. |
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