TY  - GEN
AU  - Moodie, Megan 
TI  - We were Adivasis: aspiration in an Indian scheduled tribe
SN  - 9789386552488
U1  - 305.48 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Primus Books
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Groups of People
KW  - Woman
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Kaliyuga
KW  - Wedding Ambivalence
KW  - Dhanka
KW  - Collective Marriage
KW  - Samuhik Vivaha Rules
KW  - Samaj
KW  - Tribal Women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index
N2  - In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the pas
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