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In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated 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 symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system.Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, postcolonial, and now neofeudal conditions. In telling the overarching story of commodity and empire, A Time for Tea demonstrates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest, and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own "decolonization" as a Third World feminist anthropologist. The book concludes with an extended reflection on the cultures of hierarchy, power, and difference in the plantation's villages. It explores the overlapping processes by which gender, caste, and ethnicity constitute the interlocked patronage system of villages and their fields of labor. The tropes of coercion, consent, and resistance are threaded through the discussion.A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labor studies, and comparative or international feminism.Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.

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Histoire

Ethnic studies

History of Asia

India

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	29 novembre 2001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822380153
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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A Time for Tea

A John Hope Franklin Center book

A Time for Tea

, ,  /

    

Piya Chatterjee

Duke University Press Durham and London 

Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper 

Typeset in Fournier

by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data appear on the last printed page

of this book.

for Baba, my father who mothers me

for Kaki, who does the same

for Kaku, who is gentle

and in memory of my mother,

Dipti Chatterjee, who wished it

Contents

List of Illustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxi

 Alap   Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire   Cultivating the Garden   The Raj Baroque   Estates of a New Raj   Discipline and Labor   Village Politics   Protest   A Last Act 

Appendix Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Illustrations

. A box of Brooke Bond tea  . A box of Brooke Bond PG Tips teabags  . ‘‘The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’’  . A box of Celestial Seasonings tea  a and b. ‘‘Like Sons of the Forest’’  . ‘‘The Colonies as a Captive Maiden Forced to Drink Tea’’  . Taking Tea in England  . The High Life, or Taste à la Mode  . A Comfortable Dish of Tea,   . ‘‘A Harlot’s Progress’’  a. Portrait of Sir Thomas Lipton  b. Garden scene  c. Sacks of tea on a Ceylon plantation  . Women pluckers on the plantation waiting for their leaf to be weighed  . ‘‘From the Tea Gardens to the Tea Pot’’  . ‘‘The refreshment that maintains stamina’’  . ‘‘The vital drink for the Indian worker’’  . ‘‘Keep your family strong and healthy with Indian tea’’  . ‘‘It’s your privilege and pride’’  a. ‘‘When only a certain ﬂavour will reﬂect your unique taste’’  b. ‘‘Contemporary Tea Hand Book’’  c. ‘‘The Lore of Tea’’  . Two leaves and a bud  . Attendance log  . ‘‘First Apparatus Used in the Manufacture of Tea in India’’  . ‘‘Supremely yours’’ 