Living class in urban India /
Dickey, Sara,
Living class in urban India / Sara Dickey. - Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the everyday life of class -- What is class in Madurai? -- Four residents, as I know them -- Consumption and apprehension: class in the everyday -- Debt: the material consequences of moral constructs -- Performing the middle -- Marriage: drama, display, and the reproduction of class -- Food, hunger, and the binding of class relations -- Conclusions: nuancing class boundaries.
9780813583921 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813583914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015041071
Social classes--India--Madurai--Longitudinal studies.
Social stratification--India--Madurai--Longitudinal studies.
Madurai (India)--Social conditions.
Madurai (India)--Economic conditions.
306.30954/82
Living class in urban India / Sara Dickey. - Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the everyday life of class -- What is class in Madurai? -- Four residents, as I know them -- Consumption and apprehension: class in the everyday -- Debt: the material consequences of moral constructs -- Performing the middle -- Marriage: drama, display, and the reproduction of class -- Food, hunger, and the binding of class relations -- Conclusions: nuancing class boundaries.
9780813583921 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813583914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015041071
Social classes--India--Madurai--Longitudinal studies.
Social stratification--India--Madurai--Longitudinal studies.
Madurai (India)--Social conditions.
Madurai (India)--Economic conditions.
306.30954/82