TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira
TI  - Global Issues, Local Contexts:The Rabi Das of West Bengal
SN  - 9788125050520
U1  - 305.968531 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Group of People
KW  - People with Occupation
KW  - Shoemakers
N2  - This book is an ethnographic study of a community of Shoemakers / leather workers (the Rabi Das), and their transformations under global capitalism. The lived experiences of the Rabi Das are embedded within the broader context of India''s economic liberalisation as well as in the local system of class and cultural relations in Bengali society. The various chapters in the book provide a detailed analysis of the changing nature of their conditions of employment, education, lifestyle and survival strategies. In her richly textured narrative Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase uncovers the process of Rabi Das cultural and economic marginalisation despite six decades of efforts towards self-improvement. This edition also has a new Preface.
This book will be of interest to readers in anthropology, comparative sociology, development studies and Asian Studies
ER  -