Siva & Her Sisters
Subtitle: Gender, Caste & Class in Rural South India (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813334912
Subjects: Anthropology; Feminism; Rural communities; 20th century; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; India; General; Social Science / General
First sentence: IN THIS BOOK ON EVERYDAY forms of peasant resistance, James Scott argues that the notion of "false consciousness" "typically rests on the assumption that lies dominate not only the physical means of production but the symbolic means of production as well-and that this symbolic hegemony allows them to control the very standards by which their rule is evaluated" (1985:39).