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The Kitchen Spoon's Handle
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The Kitchen Spoon's Handle Paperback - 2000

by Michele Ruth Gamburd


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"He's good-hearted guy, but what a fool!"

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According to a common Sinhala proverb, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle". In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that handle now spans several thousand miles, rather than a mere twelve inches. The Kitchen Spoon's Handle skillfully blends the stories and memories of returned migrants and their families and neighbors with interviews with government officials, recruiting agents, and moneylenders, showing the confluence of global and local processes in the lives of the villagers.

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  • Title The Kitchen Spoon's Handle
  • Author Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2000-10-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780801486449 / 0801486440
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 5.95 x 0.73 in (22.76 x 15.11 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama, Sex role - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008931
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.095

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 114

About the author

Michele Ruth Gamburd is Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University.

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