audiobook The Pritchard/Pritchett Family History: The Virginia Line from Thomas; Jamestown Immigrant; with related families Tichenell; Nestor; and Meredith. Fourth Edition by Emily P. Cary in History

Description

Untouchable Pasts constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community over the last two hundred years. The Satnamis of Central India have combined the features of a caste and a sect to question and challenge the tenor of ritual power that variously defines Hinduism. At the same time; within the community; schemes of meaning and power; particularly those centering on gender; have been imbued with ambiguity and a reproduction of forms of inequality. The book presents an interpretive account of Satnami endeavors; encounters; and experiences by combining history and anthropology; archival and field work. It addresses a clutch of theoretical questions and a range of key and inextricably bound analytical relationships in an accessible manner. Issues of caste and untouchability; sect and kinship; myths and pasts are rendered here as part of a wider dynamic between religion and power; gender and community; writing and the constitution of traditions; ritual and the making of modernities; and orality and the construction of histories.