商品簡介
Contributors in anthropology, history, sociology, communication, and development studies describe the diverse lifestyles of the middle class in India today, in this collection of eight papers from a July 2007 conference held at the University of Sussex. Readers will gain new perspectives on middle-class femininity in New Delhi, the construction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda, the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema, and work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists. A chapter advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940, includes b&w historical advertisements. Editor Donner teaches Indian Studies at Georg-August University, Germany. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Henrike Donner is currently Professor for Indian Society and Culture at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen, Germany. Her research interests include urban anthropology, gender and kinship.
