Omschrijving
This book recounts two years of living with a group of hijras in rural India. In this riveting ethnography, Vaibhav Saria reveals not just a group of stigmatized or marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires that trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.
"(This book) is a gripping ethnography of hijras and their communities. Saria details the intimate, social, and economic structures that determine how hijras craft their lives, whom and where they love, and the losses they grieve. With startling insights, Saria shows how hijras shape and reshape those very experiences. An iconoclastic, vivid, and deeply meaningful book." - Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Saria is also a member of QuTUB, an international team of researchers working to advance methodologies to measure and improve the quality of tuberculosis care.