Antharjanam
Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 7 July 2011
- ISBN 9780198074168
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 218x148x18 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32(B/W line drawing) 0
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Short description:
The first full-length memoirs of a Namboodiri woman, the work reveals little-known facts of a Namboodiri woman's life lived behind closed doors and throws interesting sidelights on the social history of a largely insular community.
MoreLong description:
Ending the silence of centuries and written without embellishments, this is the first full-length memoirs of a Namboodiri woman. The opening section of this volume is about growing up in an orthodox and affluent Namboodiri household in the early decades of the 20th century situated in erstwhile Malabar. Its focus is very deliberately women and young girls.
In the enormous Pakavoor Illam, their hours filled with sombre routine chores of ritual baths and plain clothes, no flowers or jewellery, left to the care of maids, and deprived of parental love, young Namboodiri girls grew up detached from their more privileged brothers. Illness, the rare visits of traders, beautiful Nair cousins and doctors enlivened an otherwise unbearably dreary life. Told without a trace of self-pity, Devaki Nilayamgode's work is a remarkable feat in personal and social
history. The detailed Introduction by J. Devika helps set the context of the work.
Later narratives in the book record the winds of change that brought radical ideas into these dim interiors. The memoirs unfold a variety of experiences that range from changing agricultural practices, indigenous systems of anti-snake-venom treatment, and escoteric patterns of medical practice to the gradual erosion of the community's wealth and unquestioned social power.
Table of Contents:
Author's Note
Translator's Note
Introduction
Pakaravoor Illam
Amma
The Daily Routine
Kuli-The Ritual Bath
Pudava
Studies
Visitors
Yaatra--A Journey
Kaikottikkali--A Group Dance
Sheelavati
Floods
Waiting to Grow Up
Thuppettan
Attachment
Widows
I Know Lucy
Kaliyadakka
Leavings
The Pox
The Winds to Change Reach Mookkuthala
Doctor
Marriage
Kuriyedathu Thaatri
Fever
Harvest
Pathaayam
Social Activism
No Regret
Glossary
