Full Description
An eye-opening anthropological examination of masculinity, violence, and transnational migration focused on present-day Punjab.
In Coming of Age in Macholand, the anthropologist and filmmaker Harjant S. Gill shows how Punjabi men in India, disillusioned by promises for power and control, contend with patriarchy: by submitting to it, attempting to transgress it, migrating to escape it, and coming undone by it. Gill takes readers deep inside men's worlds to show how boys come of age and masculinity is produced through pervasive violence, while it is also underlined with intimacy in the form of fraternal love and homosocial bonds.
Based on four years of fieldwork carried out over a decade and hundreds of interviews, Gill explores how boys learn to become men against the backdrop of patriarchal constraints, political violence, changing agrarian economies, and outward migration. He also shows the great extent to which violence is a function and a reflection of powerlessness. By exploring the development of masculinity in a society where sexuality is sanctioned exclusively through heteronormative frameworks of marriage and family, this book documents how patriarchy forecloses sexual agency and emotional autonomy. Ultimately, it offers an indictment of patriarchy as a system that not only oppresses women but also constricts men's intimate and sexual choices.
Contents
Map of Indian Punjab
Notes on Terminology
Prologue
Introduction
A Suitable Match
Conceiving Macholand
Violence in Macholand
In and Out of Macholand
Chapter 1: Welcome to Punjab: Fly Nonstop from Amritsar to London
Border Crossings
Airports and Airplanes
A Transnational Punjabi Wedding
A Bungalow with the Eagle Water Tank
Learning English, Learning IELTS
Chapter 2: Initiations into Manhood
Morning Darshan
Initiations into Sikh Manhood
Threatening Sikh Manhood
Betraying Sikh Manhood
Jat Sikhs and Caste
Chapter 3: Coming of Age
Coming of Age in Chandigarh
Coming of Age in Punjab
Dating and Dreaming in Chandigarh
Heartbreak in Macholand
Chapter 4: Subverting Macholand
Being Gay in Macholand
Bending the Rules of Macholand
Becoming a "Proper" Boy
A Man with a Woman's Soul
Chapter 5: Becoming Transnational in the "Modern" City
A "Modern" City in Global Times
Chandigarh Boys
Rural Men in the "Modern" City
Wayward Sons, Forlorn Mothers
Becoming Transnational
Chapter 6: Macholand in Diaspora
Coming of Age in California
Coming Out in the Diaspora
Finding Queer Belonging
Conclusion
Ways Out of Macholand
Author's Note: Autoethnography as Methodology
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Punjabi Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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