Woman and Society among Andro

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.

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Pebam Krishnakumari is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow (UGC) in the Department of Anthropology, Manipur University. She completed her M.Phil and Ph.D from the University of Delhi. Her main areas of research include HIV/AIDS, women s reproductive health, gender studies and formulation of health policy and programmes.