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Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India - Tempest in a Teapot (Hardcover, New)
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Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India - Tempest in a Teapot (Hardcover, New)
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Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India:
Tempest in Teapot is a unique book that brings together a holistic
theoretical approach on the subject of witchcraft accusations,
specifically those taking place inside a tea workers' community in
India. Using a combination of in-depth and extensive qualitative
methods, and drawing on sociological, anthropological, and
historical perspectives, Chaudhuri explores how adivasi (tribal)
migrant workers use witchcraft accusations to deal with
worker-management conflict. Chaudhuri argues that witchcraft
accusations can be interpreted as a periodic reaction of the
adivasi worker community against their oppression by the plantation
management. The typical avenues of social protest are often
unavailable to marginalized workers due to lack of organizational
and political representation and resources. As a result, the dain
(witch) becomes a scapegoat for the malice of the plantation
economy. Within this discourse, witch hunts can be seen not as
exotic and primitive rituals of a backward community, but rather as
a powerful protest by a community against its oppressors. The book
attempts to understand the complex network of relationships--ties
of friendship, family, politics, and gender--that provide the
necessary legitimacy for the witch hunt to take place. In most
cases examined here, seemingly petty conflicts within the villagers
often escalate to a hunt. At the height of the conflict, the
exploitative relationship between the plantation management and the
adivasi migrant workers often gets hidden. The book demonstrates
how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within this
backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity
of power, patronage, and social distance. Witches, Tea Plantations,
and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India should appeal to
criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, labor historians,
gender scholars, labor migration scholars, witch hunt and
witchcraft accusation global scholars, adivasi scholars, South
Asian scholars, and anyone interested in India s tribes, witchcraft
accusations, gender in a global world, labor conflict, and Indian
tea plantations."
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