This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanj v r district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951 3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a...
This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanj v r district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the ...
Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in transnational, intercultural relation to one another. Its chosen subject in this case is the cultural and political intersection of African and Irish diasporic peoples and movements.
Gough approaches her subject via five key "flashpoints" in Black/Green relations, moving from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. In turn, each of these is related to mediums of performance that were prevalent at the time, such as...
Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performanc...
