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9781843313991

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2 Mo

An anthropological study of South Asian masculinities.

'Men and Masculinities in South India' aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination.

Preface; Acknoledgements; 1. Introduction: Masculinites in South Asia; 2. How to Make a Man?; 3. Working Men's Lives; 4. Men of Substance: Earning and Spending; 5. Producing Heterosexuality: Flirting and Romancing; 6. Negotiating Heterosexuality: Pornography, Masturbation and 'Secret Love'; 7. Homosocial Spaces: The Sabarimala Pilgrimage; 8. Masculine Styles: Young Men and Movie Heroes; 9. Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

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Publié par

Anthem Press

Date de parution

01 septembre 2006

EAN13

9781843313991

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Men and Masculinities in South India

Anthem South Asian Studies

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Men and Masculinities in South India

Caroline and Filippo Osella

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CONTENTS

Preface/Acknowledgements 1.Introduction: Masculinities in South Asia 2.How to Make a Man? 3.Working Men’s Lives 4.Men of Substance: Earning and Spending 5.Producing Heterosexuality: Flirting and Romancing 6.Negotiating Heterosexuality: Pornography, Masturbation and ‘Secret Love’ 7.Homosocial Spaces: The Sabarimala Pilgrimage 8.Masculine Styles: Young Men and Movie Heroes 9.Conclusions Glossary Bibliography Index

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PREFACE/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is based upon several lengthy periods of joint fieldwork in a rural paddy-growing area of central Kerala (thepanchayat, ‘Valiyagramam’) and some short fieldworks in Kerala’s state capital, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) from 1989 to 2002. We have been indebted over the years to several agencies, which have funded the research: the Economic and Social Science Research Council of Great Britain; the Nuffield Foundation; The Leverhulme Trust; the Wenner-Gren Foundation; the Society for South Asian Studies; and to our home institutions—the University of Sussex and SOAS, London. Parts of this manuscript have been read and commented upon by Radhika Chopra, Shilpa Phadke, Sanjay Srivastava and Muraleedharan Tharayil—we are grateful to all. Thanks to Mahalakshmi Mahadevan for copy editing and some thoughtful comments. As ever, heartfelt thanks to our long-time friend Thampi Chandrasekhar for all his help. Note on transliteration: in line with increasing informality in transliterating Indian languages (partly due to the decline of the Indological influence on anthropology), we have asked our copy editor Mahalakshmi Mahadevan to transcribe Malayalam terms into their commonly used naturalistic Anglicized forms, which will be easily readable by anyone familiar with a Dravidian language. Thus, meesha will be more recognisable than mīśa. Versions of some of this material have been published earlier. For their gracious permission to republish parts of articles or book chapters, we thank the following:

Women Unlimited for:

Osella, C. and Osella, F. 2004. ‘Malayali Young Men and Their Movie Heroes’. In Chopra Radhika, Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella (eds.) Masculinities in South Asia, Kali for Women/Women Unlimited, Delhi.

viiiBENGAL PARTITION STORIES Cambridge University Press for: Osella, F. and Osella, C. 1999. ‘From Transience to Immanence: Consumption, Life Cycle and Social Mobility in Kerala, South India’. Modern Asian Studies, vol. 33, no. 4: 989–1020.

Blackwell Publishers for:

Osella C and Osella F. 1998. ‘On Flirting and Friendship: Micro-politics in a Hierarchical Society’.The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating Man) Vol 4, no. 2: 189–206. Osella, F. and Osella, C. 2000. ‘Migration, Money and Masculinity in Kerala’.The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 6, no. 1: 115– 131. Osella, F, and Osella, C. 2003. ‘“Ayyappan Saranam”: Masculinity and the Sabarimala Pilgrimage in Kerala’.The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 9, no. 4: 729–754. Osella, F. and Osella, C. 2006. ‘Once Upon a Time in the West? Stories of Migration and Modernity from Kerala, South India’.The Journal of the Anthropological Institute(n.s.) 12:567–586.

Curzon Press for:

Osella, C. and Osella, F. 2001. ‘Contextualising Sexuality: Young Men in Kerala, South India’. In Manderson Lenore and P.L. Rice (eds.)Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality.

DEDICATION

This one’s for you, kids! To our daughter Anna and our son Gabriele, with love and apologies for all the working weekends. We hope the trips to India make up for it.

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