The book is a bold exploration of certain controversial issues that relate to the everyday life of Hindu women. As Michael Allen says, it is "a collection of quite brilliant essays that he feel certain is destined to be acclaimed as a major contribution to the ethnography of Nepal, to the theoretical understanding of Hindu culture and society, to gender studies and to anthropological theory in general.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vivienne Kondos
Vivienne Kondos is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney. She obtained her doctorate at this university where she taught in the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Kondos has written numerous papers on Nepalese politics, culture and society based on extensive and on-going field work with Parbatya and Newar peoples in Kathmandu. She has two edited collections, The Politics of Ritual, and a second, co-edited with G. Cawlishaw, Mabo and Australia. Of late Dr. Kondos has begun field work inj Greece.
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