Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India : Women in the Field (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Traversing the otaak: Gendered fieldwork and boundaries of language Rita Kothari 2. Familiar domesticity, unfamiliar homes: Ethnography among the homeless homemakers of Ahmedabad Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee 3. Knowing and the production of knowledge: Sharing the field with Bengali women Lina M. Fruzzetti 4. Witnessing vulnerability and the vulnerable witness: Gendering emotions in fieldwork Sreeparna Chattopadhyay 5. Bengali daughter, Bengali child: The roles and routes to understanding childhood Hia Sen 6. Forging identities, rethinking culture: Field work ‘among’ ‘South Asians’ in my backyard and across the oceans Maitrayee Chaudhuri 7. A gendered field in a transnational setting: Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis Ines Lourenco and Rita Cachado 8. Notes from the field: Dalit Women and the ambiguity of anthropological analysis Rosa Maria Perez 9. Fenceless Fields Swarna Rajagopalan As a conclusion