Buy Living Class in Urban India 1st Edition PDF ebook, (ISBN-13: 9780813583914), by author Sara Dickey – published by Rutgers University Press today and save up to 80% compared to the print version of this textbook. With PDF version of this textbook, not only save you money, you can also highlight, add text, underline add post-it notes, bookmarks to pages, instantly search for the major terms or chapter titles, etc.

You can search our site for other versions of the Living Class in Urban India 1st Edition PDF ebook. You can also search for others PDF ebooks from publisher Rutgers University Press, as well as from your favorite authors. We have thousands of online textbooks and course materials (mostly in PDF) that you can download immediately after purchase. Every textbook comes with a 7 days “100% satisfaction” guarantee.

Note: e-textBooks do not come with access codes, CDs/DVDs, workbooks, and other supplemental items.

Summary of Living Class in Urban India – 1st Edition

From publisher Rutgers University Press:

Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes.Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.

Download Living Class in Urban India 1st Edition PDF eBook

You can download the Living Class in Urban India 1st Edition | 9780813583914 PDF immediately after successful checkout! It’s also emailed to you as soon as the order is confirmed. You can share your ebook free to your friends. Happy you, happy us!