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Between love and property: Voice, sentiment, and subjectivity in the reform of daughter's inheritance in Nepal
Author(s) -
KUNREUTHER LAURA
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01178.x
Subject(s) - subjectivity , contest , property (philosophy) , daughter , sociology , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , relation (database) , trace (psycholinguistics) , meaning (existential) , linguistics , law , epistemology , political science , philosophy , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , database
In this article, I trace the relation between the figure of voice and subjectivity by examining a Nepali reform movement that sought to give daughters a birth right to ancestral property. At its heart was a contest over emerging class and gender subjectivities that were repeatedly defined through the figure of the voice and related practices of address, hailing, and recognition. The competing formations of voice I discuss here entail shifting notions of intimacy. To challenge property relations thus meant to change existing practices of speech, sentiment, and the meaning of voice itself. [ voice, sentiment, property, subjectivity, Nepal, gender, class distinction ]