Nikita Kaur Simpson: Tension | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781478033295 | Tension | Nikita Kaur Simpson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026

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In Tension, Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted state of distress they call "tension." This "tension" takes many forms: Kamzori, or weakness, in the bodies of elderly women; "Future tension" accumulating in the minds of young girls; or Opara, or black magic, afflicting whole families. Through her long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Simpson follows the ways in which Gaddi people tie this distress to broader structural changes, such as land dispossession and caste, class, tribal and gender inequality, which are growing alongside modernity and prosperity. In doing so, she shows how "tension" acts as an everyday diagnostic of the problems of cultural, economic and environmental change as they shape intimate life. At once a lived historical account, a cartography of care relations, and a multi-sensory exploration of the intimate experiences of atmosphere and body, Tension puts forth a novel theory of distress, that inequality is often determined by who is made to feel, hold, and absorb distress.

Über den Autor

Nikita Kaur Simpson is Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Note ix
Preface: A Mother’s Body xi
Introduction. What is Tension? 1
1. Opara: Is Distress Relational? 27
2. Kamzori: How Does the Distressed Body Hold Time? 59
3. Ghar Ki Tension: Why is Care So Often the Source of Distress? 89
4. Future Tension: What is It About the Future That Generates Distress? 115
5. Pagal: What Happens When Distress Becomes Deviant? 141
Conclusion. Can Tension Travel? 169
Acknowledgments 179
Select Hindi and Gaddi Glossary 183
Notes 187
Bibliography 201
Index 215

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478033295
ISBN-10:	1478033290
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Simpson, Nikita Kaur
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Nikita Kaur Simpson
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.03.2026
Gewicht:	0,396 kg