Focusing on the material things in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, this article examines caste and its connection to sexuality. The brahminic obsession with caste hierarchies is based on controlling women’s bodies and Dalit exclusion. In everyday life, such control over women’s bodies and Dalit subordination is produced via material things. The practice of untouchability becomes real only when certain things/bodies are given touchable/pure status while others are assigned untouchable/abject meanings, which has repercussions for all members of society. Using thing theory and aspects of citizenship theory and brahminic culture, this article studies the ‘materiality’ through which caste is relayed and produced.

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解读种姓的重要性

本文着眼于 Arundhati Roy 的《小物之神》中的物质事物，探讨了种姓及其与性的联系。婆罗门对种姓等级的痴迷是基于控制女性的身体和排斥达利特人。在日常生活中，这种对女性身体的控制和达利特人的从属地位是通过物质事物产生的。只有当某些事物/身体被赋予可触摸/纯粹的状态，而其他事物/身体被赋予不可触摸/卑鄙的含义时，不可接触的做法才成为现实，这对社会所有成员都有影响。本文运用物论以及公民理论和婆罗门文化的各个方面，研究了种姓传递和产生的“物质性”。