{"product_id":"cultures-of-servitude-raka-ray-9780804760720","title":"Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India","description":"\u003cp\u003eDomestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In \u003ci\u003eCultures of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book shifts the conversations surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants grapple with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804760721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804760720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/22\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 118","brand":"Raka Ray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947220271359,"sku":"9780804760720","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e47ee8ab-a01d-4e66-aab2-55ef2e508a72.jpg?v=1681517437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultures-of-servitude-raka-ray-9780804760720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}