Forgotten friends : Monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India / Indrani Chatterjee.

By:

Chatterjee, Indrani

Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: xiv, 451 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780198089223 (hbk.)
0198089228 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

294.0954 CHA 23

LOC classification:

BQ349.B73 C43 2013

Contents:

Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Monastic Governance, 'Geographicity', Gender; 2. Eighteenth-century Shifts of Monastic Governments; 3. Political Ecology and Reconstituted 'Hindu' Marriage; 4. Translations of Adherence: From 'Feudalism' and 'Slavery' to 'Savagery'; 5. A Fraternity of Tea and the Monastic Politics of Friendship; 6. Undoing Gender? Restoration of Motherhood and Memory; Conclusion: Rule by Ethnography, Forgetting Monastic Histories and Households ; Glossary Bibliography Index

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-419) and index.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Monastic Governance, 'Geographicity', Gender;
2. Eighteenth-century Shifts of Monastic Governments;
3. Political Ecology and Reconstituted 'Hindu' Marriage;
4. Translations of Adherence: From 'Feudalism' and 'Slavery' to 'Savagery';
5. A Fraternity of Tea and the Monastic Politics of Friendship;
6. Undoing Gender? Restoration of Motherhood and Memory;
Conclusion: Rule by Ethnography, Forgetting Monastic Histories and Households ;
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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