A Companion to the anthropology of India /
"A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India's globalization in the twenty-first century. Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Σειρά: | Blackwell companions to anthropology ;
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I: Caste and class in liberal India 1. Demography for anthropolgists: populations, castes and classes / Christophe Z. Guilmoto
- 2. Caste, class, and untouchability / Robert Deliège
- 3. Great expectations: youth in contemporary India / Craig Jeffrey
- 4. The modern transformation of an old elite: the case of the Tamil Brahmans / C.J. Fuller
- Caste and collective memory in South India / Zoé E. Headley
- Part II: Cities, cosmopolitan styles, and urban critics "How to sit, how to stand": bodily practice and the new urban middle class / Meredith Lindsay McGuire
- Global dancing in Kolkata / Pallabi Chakravorty.
- 8. Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire / Joe Alter, University of Pittsburgh
- 9. Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras / Jennifer Huberman, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- 10. Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi / Mira Mohsini
- 11. Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City / Ajay Gandhi, Yale University
- Part III: Cultures and Religions in the Making
- 12. Optic-clash: Modes of Visuality in India / Shaila Bhatti, University College London & Christopher Pinney, University College London
- 13. Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror' / Philippa Williams, University of Cambridge
- 14. Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Rutgers University
- 15. Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency / Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
- Part IV: Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism.
- 16. The Politics of Communalism and Caste / Ornit Shani, University of Haifa
- 17. Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics / Tarini Bedi, University of Chicago
- 18. India Burning: The Maoist Revolution / Alpa Shah, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Part V: Law, Governance and Civil Society
- 19. Courts of Law and Legal Practice / Daniela Berti, CNRS, Paris
- 20. Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence / Beatrice Jauregui, Center for the Advanced Study of India
- 21. Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective / John Harriss, London School of Economics
- 22. Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi / Yaffa Truelove, University of Cambridge and Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge
- 23. Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai's Settlements / Nikhil Anand, Stanford University
- Part VI: From Global India to the Ethnography of Change.
- 24. Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia / Leo Coleman, Ohio State University
- 25. India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives Cecilia Van Hollen, Syracuse University
- 26. Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness / Sarah Pinto, Tufts University
- 27. Ways of Aging / Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University
- 28. The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives / Isabelle Clark-Deces, Princeton University.
