Summary of Monica Jackson's Going Back

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Get the Summary of Monica Jackson's Going Back in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Going Back is a heart-warming account of Monica Jackson’s return to the Biligirirangan Hills of Karnataka and the coffee estates where she grew up. Daughter of an English estate owner, her early years were spent on the family plantations in pre-Independent India. Her recollections of those times and the adventures that mark her ‘homecoming’, provide the book with both it’s charm and humour. As a scholar of anthropology, Jackson writes with genuine feeling for the region and its people, bringing alive the world that she has carried in her heart all these years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638158332

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author was born and raised in India in a family of coffee planters. She went on to study anthropology and social anthropology at Cambridge and Edinburgh, respectively. She has conducted research in India on fertility, caste, and kinship.

#2

Malinowski’s advice to ethnographers to step away from their subjects and observe them from a distance is hardly applicable to the case of south India, where every hut has a porch where people sit and gossip.

#3

The author would often have to retreat to her diary to process the events that unfolded each day. She would constantly have to remind herself that she was there to study, and not participate.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The author was afraid of cockroaches, centipedes, and scorpions, so she slept with a torch in her room. One night, she woke up to find a rat on her bed.

#2

Despite the unpleasant surroundings, the author was able to fall asleep at last. When she awoke, however, the cacophony of sounds from the village woke her up even faster.

#3

The village consisted of a small area surrounding a big well, which was situated east of the thatched hut. The area was surrounded