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Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere. This book shifts the conversations surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants grapple with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality.

Household employees --- Master and servant --- Social classes --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Contracts --- Hire --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees --- History. --- Law and legislation --- India --- Social conditions.

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Este libro es resultado del Primer Encuentro Internacional de Historia sobre "El Siglo XIX en Bolivia y América Latina", organizado por la Coordinadora de Historia y el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA) el año 1994 en la ciudad de Sucre en homenaje postumo a Gunnar Mendoza. Dedicado al siglo XIX, por ser un período poco abordado en general por la historiografía de los últimos años, tuvo el propósito de analizar, con mayor profundidad y rigor, tanto las continuidades coloniales como las rupturas que lo caracterizaron. En la medida en que participaron bolivianos y bolivianistas de Europa y Estados Unidos, así como investigadores latinoamericanos de Argentina, Perú, Chile, Ecuador y Colombia, esperamos que este volumen que hoy presentamos constituya un aporte y una referencia para el análisis de esta época fundacional de los estados-naciones de América Latina.

Humanities, Multidisciplinary --- History --- Bolivie --- XIXe siècle --- Amérique du Sud --- indépendance --- région --- élite --- culture --- économie --- politique --- identité culturelle --- Bolivia --- cultura --- economía --- elite --- identidad cultural --- independencia --- política --- región --- América del Sur --- siglo XXI --- élites