Caste and Equality
Friendship Patterns among Young Academics in Urban India
Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly-educated middle class in the Tamil town of Madurai. As part of their distinctive status as `educated persons', young graduates form egalitarian constellations by ostensibly subverting the boundaries inscribed by caste hierarchy. Stephanie Stocker explores how these friendships are maintained in wider social contexts, finding that the actors engage in supportive networks throughout career and marriage events. Instead of assuming these relationships to be of an entirely different, `alternative category', however, Stocker's study proposes a dynamic character of friendship which in fact remains in conjunction with Indian values of hierarchy.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Notes
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 22 -
Part I: Friendship in India - a 'social phenomenon of modernity'?
1. Anthropological accounts of modernity
Seiten 23 - 42 -
2. Research question: Peer groups among Tamil graduate students
Seiten 43 - 72 -
Part II: Making and maintaining friendship
3. Exposure and status on campus
Seiten 73 - 104 -
4. Beyond the campus: Among friends in the domestic sphere
Seiten 105 - 122 -
Part III: Just a friend? Ritual implications
5. "Key site of cultural contestation"? Youth, education and marriage
Seiten 123 - 142 -
6. Reflections on compatibility: The students' perspective
Seiten 143 - 172 -
7. Peers as mediators in matchmaking and pre-wedding ceremonies
Seiten 173 - 212 -
8. Peers in wedding ceremonies
Seiten 213 - 262 -
9. Conclusion and outlook
Seiten 263 - 272 -
References and literature
Seiten 273 - 282 -
Illustrations, tables and maps
Seiten 283 - 284 -
Abbreviations
Seiten 285 - 286 -
Glossary
Seiten 287 - 298 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 299 - 302
9. Mai 2017, 302 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3885-1
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