Shifting balances in a 'craft community': The mat weavers of Pattamadai, South India

Contributions to Indian Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-89

  Venkatesan, Soumhya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRAFT PRODUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PATTAMADAI; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

PLOCEINAE;

EID: 33744484734     PISSN: 00699667     EISSN: 09730648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/006996670504000103     Document Type: Article

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