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Agency, Power and Personhood: Discourses of gender and violence in a fishing community in south India

This article examines the prevalence of domestic violence in a fishing community in Kerala, south India. Understanding violence here necessitates understanding something about local ideas of gender, personhood and agency; ideas which are strongly resistant to change. Violence is linked by people to...

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Main Author: Cecilia Busby
Format: Printed Book
Published: Critique of Anthropology 1999; 19; 227 1999
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