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003			OSt
020			_a9786245529070
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a331.405493 _bJ388t
100			_aJegathesan, Mythri
245			_aTea and solidarity _btamil women and work in post-war Sri Lanka _cMythri Jegathesan
260			_aColombo _bTambapanni Academic Publishers _c2023
300			_axxvii, 261p
520			_aIn this book, Mythri Jegathesan attempts to expand the anthropological understandings of dispossession. In doing so, she draws attention to the political significance of gender in investment and placemaking, particularly in Sri Lanka, but also more generally in South Asia as well. This detailed ethnography sheds considerable light on an otherwise invisible minority whose labour and collective heritage of dispossession as ‘coolies’ in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka’s recognition, economic growth and history as a post-colonial nation. Author A cultural anthropologist by training, Mythri Jegathesan is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University, California. Her research focuses on gender, labour, minority politics, and development in the Global South. Her research in Sri Lanka has specifically looked at the social and economic experiences of Tamil women tea plantation residents and workers in the country.
650			_aWomen, Tamil -- Social conditions
650			_aSri Lanka
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aFeminism
942			_cBK
999			_c566957 _d566957