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Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation

By: Kelkar, Govind Contributor(s): Nathan, Dev Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: xiv, 272pISBN: 9781108490511Subject(s): Witchcraft -- Social Aspects | Women -- Social ConditionsDDC classification: 133.43

Contents:

1.Culture 2. With Hunts in India 3. Patriarchy 4. Structural Transformation

Summary: "Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural, and socio-economic struggles over acute structural, economic, and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. The book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. Starting with field data from India and South-east Asia, the analysis incorporates a large body of works on Africa, the Americas, and early modern Europe. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, masculinity, knowledge practices, and adaptation in structural transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	133.43 KEL/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		053862

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1.Culture
2. With Hunts in India
3. Patriarchy
4. Structural Transformation

"Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural, and socio-economic struggles over acute structural, economic, and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. The book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. Starting with field data from India and South-east Asia, the analysis incorporates a large body of works on Africa, the Americas, and early modern Europe. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, masculinity, knowledge practices, and adaptation in structural transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

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