Pebam Krishnakumari

Woman and Society Among Andro: Woman in Various Spheres Pebam Krishnakumari

While the title of accentuates woman in Andro, a Scheduled Caste village in Manipur India the write up give a rich tapestry of life in Andro and goaded down the feature which makes this place unique - big,black lustrous pots, Pana institution and their unstinting devotion on these supernatural being for bountiful harvest,invigorating village,their staccatos beats as a means of communicating news of important events from feast to death of a person. This book presents the roles woman enacted in family,marriage,kinship,politics,economy and religion traversing from being a daughter to the stage of mother in order to weave a blithesome texture of woman in Andro society. Thus woman in Andro are scrutinise in their calibre for playing roles within the several sub-system of the social structure. The inter relatedness of various sub-system is also stressed. This book will give an ethnographic account of a village called Andro as well as give an insight of growing up as a woman in Andro society which can enlighten researcher and scholars who are in the field of gender and ethnographic studies.