Abstract
In this chapter, Yadav describes the kinship and lineage structure in the village of Mahalapur. She discusses the different family systems joint/separated families and how they get restructured and reorganised to meet their basic needs. She studies how family households are organised to maximise their options of earning and how one household chooses a particular form of livelihood over another. She observes these diversities observed in livelihood choices reflect the Gonds’ household circumstances. This chapter examines how the Gond households transform into a workforce in the pursuit of financial independence for their families. She concludes by describing how livelihood choices can be categorised into different types of household/family patterns based on gender, age, and marital status of the household.
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The second Uma is different from Neelam introduced earlier. Unlike her, Mahalapur is the in-laws’ place for this Neelam.
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Social mobility of the Gonds by experiencing newer forms of wealth is Hinduisation but is partial form of Hinduisation as there is a wider acceptance of the labour work participation of the Gond women unlike the traditional norm that prevents women of higher caste communities to be seen doing unskilled wage work which I saw in the case of widows, older women and elderly married women.
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Yadav, S. (2018). Family and Kinship: The False Binary of the Subjective and Empirical Definition of a Household. In: Precarious Labour and Informal Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77971-3_4
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