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Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City

Autor Zarin Ahmad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 aug 2018
This work is about the Qureshi Muslim butchers of Delhi-an endogamous group among Muslims in India, traditionally involved in the Islamic Halaal slaughtering and selling of animal meat. Ethnographic studies on Qureshi Muslims in India have been rare. The aim of this work is to add to the small and scattered literature on social diversities among Indian Muslims. It looks at the lives of an urban occupational people who are engaged in the meat sector, the commodity meat, and the socio-political, economic, and cultural spaces that meat occupies in urban areas. In doing so, the author follows the transformation of the animal to diverse commodities and their trajectory from the farm to the meat shop. The author argues that the meat sector itself has undergone significant technological changes, mechanizing many of the tasks that were earlier performed manually. This has signalled a huge socio-economic shift for butchers and as well as the meat trade. The domain of the butchers it is argued was already polarized and problematized due to the complexities of meat in the Indian religious, political, and social landscape. This study thus aims to understand and document these shifts and contextualize the changing identities of a marginalized community.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199477807
ISBN-10: 0199477809
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 148 x 224 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: OUP INDIA
Colecția OUP India
Locul publicării:Delhi, India

Descriere

Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetchesprecious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues. Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.

Notă biografică

Zarin Ahmad is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. She is a New India Foundation Fellow and received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has previously worked on refugees and Muslim minorities in Sri Lanka in the context of the war.