中文注释:一群低等种姓的印度妇女在一块广茂的田野里种植水稻。低等种姓的社会身份通过血缘继承,这些处在社会最底层的“贱民”在全印度约有1.6亿,约占印度总人口的15%。根据印度种姓制度,他们被认为是肮脏的,只能从事最累最脏的工作。 注:种姓制度(caste system)是对社会群体的宗教划分,古代印度人被分为四个种姓。 作者: William Albert Allard
女工 印度 图片故事:高清壁纸:英文注释:Workers Planting Rice, India, 2003 Women from India's so-called Untouchable caste plant rice in a large field. Consigned by birth to the lowest social strata, Untouchables number some 160 million, about 15 percent of India's people. Considered impure by Hindu law, they are generally permitted to perform only the most menial jobs. (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Untouchable," June 2003, National Geographic magazine) 随机推荐: |
