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Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu.

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"This is the work of the most important anthropologist working in South India and Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka in the past fifty years." * Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin *
"This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical composition and storytelling articulate otherwise suppressed struggles." * Ann Grodzins Gold, from the Foreword *

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Ann Grodzins Gold
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Māriamman
Chapter 2. Sorrow and Protest
Chapter 3. Work and Love
Chapter 4. On the Edge of the Wild
Chapter 5. The Life of Sevi
Chapter 6. The Song of Siṅgammā
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Tamil Words and Phrases
References
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 13 June 2017
      ISBN-13 9780812249057
      978-0812249057
      ISBN-10 0812249054
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      Regional / International studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu.

      Trade Review
      "This is the work of the most important anthropologist working in South India and Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka in the past fifty years." * Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin *
      "This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical composition and storytelling articulate otherwise suppressed struggles." * Ann Grodzins Gold, from the Foreword *

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, by Ann Grodzins Gold
      Preface
      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Māriamman
      Chapter 2. Sorrow and Protest
      Chapter 3. Work and Love
      Chapter 4. On the Edge of the Wild
      Chapter 5. The Life of Sevi
      Chapter 6. The Song of Siṅgammā
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Glossary of Tamil Words and Phrases
      References
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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