In this ethnographic and historical critique of labour practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated and creative examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. "A Time for Tea" reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements - picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields - came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, horribly low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system. Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishisation of women who labour under colonial, postcolonial, and now neo-feudal conditions.In exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labour, she reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own 'decolonisation' as a third-world female anthropologist. In the end, the history of empire itself is traced through tea's journey in the British imagination from an exotic to a consolingly domestic commodity. Chatterjee concludes with an extended reflection on the politics of women labourers to examine the intermingling of gender, class, caste, and ethnicity with issues of hierarchy, difference, and power. "A Time for Tea" will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labour studies, and comparative or international feminism.
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A common theme among the monographs we read this week is the unique colonial procurement of labor. Due to the different conditions and historical contexts in the areas, there were differences in how labor arrived on the plantations in Sri Lanka and Assam. C...
评分A common theme among the monographs we read this week is the unique colonial procurement of labor. Due to the different conditions and historical contexts in the areas, there were differences in how labor arrived on the plantations in Sri Lanka and Assam. C...
评分A common theme among the monographs we read this week is the unique colonial procurement of labor. Due to the different conditions and historical contexts in the areas, there were differences in how labor arrived on the plantations in Sri Lanka and Assam. C...
评分A common theme among the monographs we read this week is the unique colonial procurement of labor. Due to the different conditions and historical contexts in the areas, there were differences in how labor arrived on the plantations in Sri Lanka and Assam. C...
评分A common theme among the monographs we read this week is the unique colonial procurement of labor. Due to the different conditions and historical contexts in the areas, there were differences in how labor arrived on the plantations in Sri Lanka and Assam. C...
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