Cultures of Servitude - Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (Paperback)

Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In "Cultures of Servitude," Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere.
This book shifts the conversations surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants grapple with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	February 2009
Authors:	Raka Ray • Seemin Qayum
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	255
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-6072-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-8047-6072-1
Barcode:	9780804760720

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