A Companion to the anthropology of India /
A Companion to the anthropology of India /
edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès.
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xii, 552 pages).
- Blackwell Companions to Anthropology ; 8 .
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Caste and class in liberal India Demography for anthropolgists: populations, castes and classes / Caste, class, and untouchability / Great expectations: youth in contemporary India / The modern transformation of an old elite: the case of the Tamil Brahmans / Caste and collective memory in South India / Cities, cosmopolitan styles, and urban critics "How to sit, how to stand": bodily practice and the new urban middle class / Global dancing in Kolkata / Christophe Z. Guilmoto -- Robert Deliège -- Craig Jeffrey -- C.J. Fuller -- Zoé E. Headley -- Meredith Lindsay McGuire -- Pallabi Chakravorty. Part I: 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II: Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire / Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras / Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi / Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City / Cultures and Religions in the Making -- Optic-clash: Modes of Visuality in India / Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror' / Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine / Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency / Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism. Joe Alter, University of Pittsburgh -- Jennifer Huberman, University of Missouri-Kansas City -- Mira Mohsini -- Ajay Gandhi, Yale University -- Shaila Bhatti, University College London & Christopher Pinney, University College London -- Philippa Williams, University of Cambridge -- Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Rutgers University -- Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross -- 8. 9. 10. 11. Part III: 12. 13. 14. 15. Part IV: The Politics of Communalism and Caste / Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics / India Burning: The Maoist Revolution / Law, Governance and Civil Society -- Courts of Law and Legal Practice / Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence / Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective / Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi / Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai's Settlements / From Global India to the Ethnography of Change. Ornit Shani, University of Haifa -- Tarini Bedi, University of Chicago -- Alpa Shah, Goldsmiths, University of London -- Daniela Berti, CNRS, Paris -- Beatrice Jauregui, Center for the Advanced Study of India -- John Harriss, London School of Economics -- Yaffa Truelove, University of Cambridge and Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge -- Nikhil Anand, Stanford University -- 16. 17. 18. Part V: 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Part VI: Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia / India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness / Ways of Aging / The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives / Leo Coleman, Ohio State University -- Cecilia Van Hollen, Syracuse University -- Sarah Pinto, Tufts University -- Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University -- Isabelle Clark-Deces, Princeton University. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
"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 of key topics that include developments in population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law. The broad variety of topics on Indian society is balanced with the larger global issues -- demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, religious, and others -- that have transformed the country since the end of colonization. Illuminating the continuity and diversity of Indian culture, A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers important insights into the myriad ways social scientists describe and analyze Indian society and its unique brand of modernity"--Provided by publisher.
9781444390599 1444390597 9781444331806 1444331809 9781444390575 1444390570
Anthropology--India.
Anthropology.
Economic history.
Population.
Social conditions.
Anthropologie.
Gesellschaft.
Ethnologie.
Anthropologie.
Gesellschaft.
India--Social conditions.
India--Economic conditions.
India--Population.
India.
Indien.
Indien.
Electronic books.
HN683 / .C585 2011eb
301.0954
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Caste and class in liberal India Demography for anthropolgists: populations, castes and classes / Caste, class, and untouchability / Great expectations: youth in contemporary India / The modern transformation of an old elite: the case of the Tamil Brahmans / Caste and collective memory in South India / Cities, cosmopolitan styles, and urban critics "How to sit, how to stand": bodily practice and the new urban middle class / Global dancing in Kolkata / Christophe Z. Guilmoto -- Robert Deliège -- Craig Jeffrey -- C.J. Fuller -- Zoé E. Headley -- Meredith Lindsay McGuire -- Pallabi Chakravorty. Part I: 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II: Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire / Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras / Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi / Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City / Cultures and Religions in the Making -- Optic-clash: Modes of Visuality in India / Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror' / Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine / Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency / Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism. Joe Alter, University of Pittsburgh -- Jennifer Huberman, University of Missouri-Kansas City -- Mira Mohsini -- Ajay Gandhi, Yale University -- Shaila Bhatti, University College London & Christopher Pinney, University College London -- Philippa Williams, University of Cambridge -- Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Rutgers University -- Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross -- 8. 9. 10. 11. Part III: 12. 13. 14. 15. Part IV: The Politics of Communalism and Caste / Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics / India Burning: The Maoist Revolution / Law, Governance and Civil Society -- Courts of Law and Legal Practice / Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence / Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective / Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi / Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai's Settlements / From Global India to the Ethnography of Change. Ornit Shani, University of Haifa -- Tarini Bedi, University of Chicago -- Alpa Shah, Goldsmiths, University of London -- Daniela Berti, CNRS, Paris -- Beatrice Jauregui, Center for the Advanced Study of India -- John Harriss, London School of Economics -- Yaffa Truelove, University of Cambridge and Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge -- Nikhil Anand, Stanford University -- 16. 17. 18. Part V: 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Part VI: Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia / India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness / Ways of Aging / The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives / Leo Coleman, Ohio State University -- Cecilia Van Hollen, Syracuse University -- Sarah Pinto, Tufts University -- Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University -- Isabelle Clark-Deces, Princeton University. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
"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 of key topics that include developments in population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law. The broad variety of topics on Indian society is balanced with the larger global issues -- demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, religious, and others -- that have transformed the country since the end of colonization. Illuminating the continuity and diversity of Indian culture, A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers important insights into the myriad ways social scientists describe and analyze Indian society and its unique brand of modernity"--Provided by publisher.
9781444390599 1444390597 9781444331806 1444331809 9781444390575 1444390570
Anthropology--India.
Anthropology.
Economic history.
Population.
Social conditions.
Anthropologie.
Gesellschaft.
Ethnologie.
Anthropologie.
Gesellschaft.
India--Social conditions.
India--Economic conditions.
India--Population.
India.
Indien.
Indien.
Electronic books.
HN683 / .C585 2011eb
301.0954