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Cultures of Servitude : Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India by Raka Ray; Seemin Qayum is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cultures of Servitude : Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India about?
Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere. This book shif
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Raka Ray; Seemin Qayum
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804771092
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Management, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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