BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:df6dc1068c5a9d26f122b720a7489bba CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121116 SUMMARY:"Anthropology, Kinship and Gender" - A talk by Prof. Rajni Palriwala, University of Delhi DESCRIPTION:AbstractThe study and analysis of kinship was central to the development of anthropology as a discipline and that of family to sociology. In the 1970s , scholars were pointing out that much of this work was done on the basis o f men’s experiences and voices. Irawati Karve was among the early Indian an thropologists in whose work, even before these explicit critiques, one hear d women’s voices and read of their experiences. Leela Dube focused specific ally on the intertwining of ideas and practices of gender and kinship. A ra nge of feminist critiques came to highlight that the underlying conceptual and theoretical frameworks in the disciplines and certainly in kinship stud ies was naturalization of both kinship and gender relations. The need to fo r a unified analysis of kinship and gender that factored in historical proc esses and crossings of the public and private to understand kinship, marria ge, and family has been variously emphasized. A few themes in the kinship a nd gender will be discussed for the new light that has been thrown on not j ust those themes, but on the very concepts and frameworks through which we do sociology and anthropology. \nAbout the speakerRajni Palriwala is a Prof essor of Sociology at the University of Delhi. She has served as Head, Depa rtment of Sociology and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences. She has been an N WO Visiting Professor and a visiting fellow at Leiden University, a fellow at the IIAS, Leiden, and held the ICCR Chair in Contemporary India at Scien ces PO, Paris.\nHer research falls within the broad area of gender relation s, covering care and emotion, citizenship and the welfare state, kinship an d marriage, dowry, women and work, women’s movements and feminist politics, cross-cultural and comparative studies, and methodology. She has done fiel dwork on a range of topics and fields, including a village in Rajasthan (ge nder, work and family), in Leh, Ladakh, (on the theme of urban forms and so cial organization), in slums in Delhi (women’s collective action), and in L eiden, The Netherlands (single parents and the welfare state).\nOther than journal articles and book chapters, she has authored Changing kinship, fami ly, and gender relations in South Asia: Processes, trends and issues (1994) and jointly authored Care, culture and citizenship: Revisiting the politic s of welfare in the Netherlands (2005) and Planning Families, Planning Gend er: The adverse child sex ratio in selected districts (2008). She has joint ly edited Marrying in South Asia: Shifting concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalised World (2013), Marriage, Migration, and Gender (2008), Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising kinship and gender relations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (1996), and Struc­tures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family in Asia (1990) with Leela Dube.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract

The study and analysis of kinship was central to the development of anthropology as a discipline and that of fami ly to sociology. In the 1970s, scholars were pointing out that much of this work was done on the basis of men’s experiences and voices. Irawati Karve was among the early Indian anthropologists in whose work, even before these explicit critiques, one heard women’s voices and read of their experiences . Leela Dube focused specifically on the intertwining of ideas and practice s of gender and kinship. A range of feminist critiques came to highlight th at the underlying conceptual and theoretical frameworks in the disciplines and certainly in kinship studies was naturalization of both kinship and gen der relations. The need to for a unified analysis of kinship and gender tha t factored in historical processes and crossings of the public and private to understand kinship, marriage, and family has been variously emphasized. A few themes in the kinship and gender will be discussed for the new light that has been thrown on not just those themes, but on the very concepts and frameworks through which we do sociology and anthropology.

About the speaker

Rajni Palriwala is a Professor of Sociol ogy at the University of Delhi. She has served as Head, Department of Socio logy and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences. She has been an NWO Visiting Pro fessor and a visiting fellow at Leiden University, a fellow at the IIAS, Le iden, and held the ICCR Chair in Contemporary India at Sciences PO, Paris.< /p>

Her research falls within the broad area of gender relations, coverin g care and emotion, citizenship and the welfare state, kinship and marriage , dowry, women and work, women’s movements and feminist politics, cross-cul tural and comparative studies, and methodology. She has done fieldwork on a range of topics and fields, including a village in Rajasthan (gender, work and family), in Leh, Ladakh, (on the theme of urban forms and social organ ization), in slums in Delhi (women’s collective action), and in Leiden, The Netherlands (single parents and the welfare state).

Other than journ al articles and book chapters, she has authored Changing kinship, famil y, and gender relations in South Asia: Processes, trends and issues (1 994) and jointly authored Care, culture and citizenship: Revisiting the politics of welfare in the Netherlands (2005) and Planning Famili es, Planning Gender: The adverse child sex ratio in selected distr icts (2008). She has jointly edited Marrying in South Asia: Shifti ng concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalised World (2013), Marr iage, Migration, and Gender (2008), Shifting Circles of Support: C ontextualising kinship and gender relations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan A frica (1996), and Struc­tures and Strategies: Women, Work and Fami ly in Asia (1990) with Leela Dube.

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