Screen LibraryA 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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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell Companions to Anthropology ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444390599 |
| Summary: |
"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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 552 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444390599 (electronic bk.) 1444390597 (electronic bk.) 9781444331806 (electronic bk.) 1444331809 (electronic bk.) 9781444390575 (electronic bk. : EBSCO) 1444390570 (electronic bk. : EBSCO) |
| Index Number: | HN683 |
| CLC: | F135.1 |
| Contents: |
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 / 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. 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. 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 / |