Popular Perceptions of Masculinity in Rural North Indian Oral Traditions.
In the oral tradition of rural north India, especially the Haryana region, hegemonic masculinity emerges as an ideological construct in the structure of patriarchy firmly located in materiality. This creates and consolidates male power over various categories of people and highlights several hierarc...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 5 - 37 |
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Nanzan University
2015
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