Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
cultural remittances, shakti, domestic workers, Vizag, India
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Anthropology
Abstract
The project under question has taken turns dramatic enough to make it nearly unrecognizable and its title almost entirely inapplicable. Problems, faced early in research but insurmountable, make it necessary that the collected data be used for purposes beside my original intent. While I originally planned to study the remittance of shakti notions among domestic workers, the project now seeks to describe the social power-based elaborations and subtractions that made translation work among this group unwieldy and useless for my purposes. While I cannot address my original hypothesis, this current iteration of my project speaks to literature detailed in the footnote, and it can provide important perspective for those facing similar difficulties (or, worse, failing to recognize them).1 I will detail the progress of my project from its origins to its current incarnation, then describe the current state of research.
Recommended Citation
Hepburn, Kirk and Nuckolls, Dr. Charles
(2013)
"Short-Distance Cultural Remittances of Shakti among Domestic Workers in Vizag, India,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 164.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/164