Rosa Perez
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Antropologia, Faculty Member
- Rosa Maria Perez is a social anthropologist who has carried out a long-term fieldwork in India. Her main topics of re... moreRosa Maria Perez is a social anthropologist who has carried out a long-term fieldwork in India. Her main topics of research are social structure (s) and social segregation (focused on Dalits), women studies, fieldwork methodology, colonialism and poscolonialism, anthropology and cinema, human rights.She is a professor of the Department of Anthropology of ISCTE- University of Lisbon Institute and in the last years she has been a visiting professor of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar.edit
Colonialism, Gender Representations, Devadassis
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41 Etnográfica, Vol. VI (1), 2002, pp. 41-58 THE GENDER OF THE NATION: ALLEGORIC FEMININITY AND WOMEN’S STATUS IN BENGAL AND GOA This joint paper is the outcome of collaborative efforts through joint teaching and joint publication. Our... more
41 Etnográfica, Vol. VI (1), 2002, pp. 41-58 THE GENDER OF THE NATION: ALLEGORIC FEMININITY AND WOMEN’S STATUS IN BENGAL AND GOA This joint paper is the outcome of collaborative efforts through joint teaching and joint publication. Our central aim is to compare the nationalist period in India – when gender was endorsed both as an ideal and an ideological program, to the post-independence era. Our comparative analysis tries to understand the status and social role of women after Indian independence, when they were drawn into the nationalist movement through their participation in the mission of cleansing the earth-land, the mother land. Adopting an anthropological and historical approach to women in Bengal and Goa, we are theoretically concerned with postcolonial gender construction, and the meaning of “woman” within contemporary national constructs of the personhood. Lina Fruzzetti and Rosa Maria Perez *