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Reassembling intimate spheres in rurban areas of contemporary India: Relationships of care in societies on the move
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- Tokita Yumiko
- Principal Investigator
- 国立民族学博物館
About This Project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP15K03040 (JGN)
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding Organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Kakenhi Information
- Project/Area Number
- 15K03040
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- Allocation Type
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- Multi-year Fund
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Humanities and Social Sciences > Humanities > Cultural anthropology > Cultural anthropology
- Research Institution
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- National Museum of Ethnology
- Osaka University
- Project Period (FY)
- 2015-04-01 〜 2018-03-31
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 4,420,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,400,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 1,020,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
This research examined the emergent meanings of being kin in so-called "rurban" areas in coastal Odisha, India. By rurban, I refer to the newly developing residential areas spatially located in between rural and urban zones, where norms, values, and practices of the village and the city meet to create hybrid meanings of personhood, marriage, family, and ageing in contemporary India. I explored the creative ways in which rurban people build new relationships of care that adhere to neither traditional family norms nor patterns of a modern nuclear family. Through extensive fieldwork, I investigated how migration into rurban areas empowers women and the socially vulnerable to negotiate and resist marginalization, and opens up spaces for new affective relationships that are not dictated by obligations of blood and affinal ties.