Kumar - Unraveling Farmer Suicides In India Egoism And Masculinity In Peasant Life - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Farmers suicides have been typically framed through official statistics and they have been explained in terms of agrarian economic distress. This book revises and extends such explanations on the basis of ethnographic work in Anantapur Andhra Pradesh. It describes spatially grounded transformations taking place in the domains of production consumption social relationships and gender identities in south India today. Its focus is on exploring how these interconnected transformations - and their engendered emotional experiences - set the context for understanding suicidal behavior in a particular location. The understanding that 'farmers suicides are objectively uniformly and exclusively marked by 'farm - related factors are thus interrogated. The book concludes by suggesting that 'farmers suicides are motivationally related to the wider field of rural suicides. Overall the book contends that rural suicides relate to emerging mentalities and interactions around status equality and honour in contemporary India.
Title: Unraveling Farmer Suicides In India Egoism And Masculinity In Peasant Life
Author(s): Kumar
Publisher: Oup India
Barcode: 9780199466856
Pages: 372 Pages
Publication Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography