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Cosmopolitan maternalisms : migration, kinship, and Coorg mothering in modernity /

"This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women - Kodavathees - in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms. Cosmopolitan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Somaiah, Bittiandra Chand (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Mothers > India > Karnataka.
Mothers > Singapore.
Mothers > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Kodagu (Indic people) > India > Karnataka.
Kodagu (Indic people) > Singapore.
Kodagu (Indic people) > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Women immigrants > India > Karnataka.
Women immigrants > Singapore.
Women immigrants > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.)
Mères > Inde > Karnātaka.
Mères > Singapour.
Mères > Australie > Sydney (N.-G. du S.)
Coorg (Peuple de l'Inde) > Inde > Karnātaka.
Coorg (Peuple de l'Inde) > Singapour.
Coorg (Peuple de l'Inde) > Australie > Sydney (N.-G. du S.)
Immigrantes > Inde > Karnātaka.
Immigrantes > Singapour.
Immigrantes > Australie > Sydney (N.-G. du S.)
Table of Contents:
  • Kodavathee Immigrant Mothering in Modernity
  • Kuppadis and Baby Showers
  • Pettavva, Pujas, and Cord Burials
  • Cultural Consumption: Risk, Mothering Manuals, and Motherlines
  • Kodava Pedha: "Aspects of our ancestors"
  • Metrolinguistic Care
  • First and Family Foods
  • Transnational Maternal Labours.