ABSTRACT
Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|36 pages
Introduction
part Two|76 pages
Elite Cultures and Hybrid Modernities
part Three|64 pages
The World in the Home
part Four|86 pages
The Home in the World