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A Companion to the Anthropology of India


A Companion to the Anthropology of India


Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology 1. Aufl.

von: Isabelle Clark-Decès

42,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 08.03.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444390575
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 576

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A Companion to the Anthropology of India <p><i>A Companion to the Anthropology of India</i> 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, caste and communalism, politics and law, public and religious cultures, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, civil society, social-moral relationships, environment and health. <p>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, <i>A Companion to the Anthropology of India</i> offers important insights into the myriad ways social scientists describe and analyze Indian society and its unique brand of modernity.
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Isabelle Clark-Decès</i></p> <p><b>Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India 23<br /> </b>1 Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes 25<br /> <i>Christophe Z. Guilmoto</i></p> <p>2 Caste, Class, and Untouchability 45<br /> <i>Robert Deliège</i></p> <p>3 Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India 62<br /> <i>Craig Jeffrey</i></p> <p>4 The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans 80<br /> <i>C. J. Fuller</i></p> <p>5 Caste and Collective Memory in South India 98<br /> <i>Zoé E. Headley</i></p> <p><b>Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics 115<br /> </b>6 “How to Sit, How to Stand”: Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class 117<br /> <i>Meredith Lindsay McGuire</i></p> <p>7 Global Dancing in Kolkata 137<br /> <i>Pallabi Chakravorty</i></p> <p>8 Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire 154<br /> <i>Joseph S. Alter</i></p> <p>9 Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras 169<br /> <i>Jenny Huberman</i></p> <p>10 Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India 186<br /> <i>Mira Mohsini</i></p> <p>11 Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City 202<br /> <i>Ajay Gandhi</i></p> <p><b>Part III Cultures and Religion in the Making 223<br /> </b>12 Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India 225<br /> <i>Shaila Bhatti and Christopher Pinney</i></p> <p>13 Hindu–Muslim Relations and the “War on Terror” 241<br /> <i>Philippa Williams</i></p> <p>14 Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine 260<br /> <i>Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi</i></p> <p>15 Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency 277<br /> <i>Mathew N. Schmalz</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism 295<br /> </b>16 The Politics of Communalism and Caste 297<br /> <i>Ornit Shani</i></p> <p>17 Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics 313<br /> <i>Tarini Bedi</i></p> <p>18 India Burning: The Maoist Revolution 332<br /> <i>Alpa Shah</i></p> <p><b>Part V Law, Governance, and Civil Society 353<br /> </b>19 Courts of Law and Legal Practice 355<br /> <i>Daniela Berti</i></p> <p>20 Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence 371<br /> <i>Beatrice Jauregui</i></p> <p>21 Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective 389<br /> <i>John Harriss</i></p> <p>22 Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi 407<br /> <i>Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley</i></p> <p>23 Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai’s Settlements 426<br /> <i>Nikhil Anand</i></p> <p><b>Part VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change 443<br /> </b>24 Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia 445<br /> <i>Leo Coleman</i></p> <p>25 India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives 464<br /> <i>Cecilia Van Hollen</i></p> <p>26 Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness 482<br /> <i>Sarah Pinto</i></p> <p>27 Ways of Aging 500<br /> <i>Sarah Lamb</i></p> <p>28 The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives 517<br /> <i>Isabelle Clark-Decès </i></p> <p>Index 536</p>
"This volume provides a useful framework for and discussion of the complexity and range of recently published research on the anthropologies of the Indian subcontinent in the era of globalization . . . Summing up: Essential. All libraries supporting graduate and undergraduate programs in anthropology, sociology, and history." (Choice, 1July 2011)
<p><b>The Editor</b> <p><b>Isabelle Clark-Decès</b> is Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Her books include <i>The Encounter Never Ends: Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals</i> (2007).
<p><i>A Companion to the Anthropology of India</i> 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, caste and communalism, politics and law, public and religious cultures, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, civil society, social-moral relationships, environment and health. <p>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, <i>A Companion to the Anthropology of India</i> offers important insights into the myriad ways social scientists describe and analyze Indian society and its unique brand of modernity.
"This marvelous exploration of the ‘new' India is also a triumphant vindication of the old anthropological virtues of closely attending to the particularity of other people's lives."<br /> <i>Jonathan Spencer, Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh</i><br /> <br /> <p> </p> <p>"This collection cuts loose from earlier ethnographic and theoretical interests to focus on India seen through the theoretical lens of globalization."<br /> <i>Mattison Mines, University of California Santa Barbara</i></p> <p> </p> <p>"This is an excellent, highly readable, sample of current work on the social anthropology of India, a "must" for anyone interested in developments in Indian society today."<br /> <i>Peter van der Veer, Director Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen</i></p> <p> </p> <p>"This exciting volume showcases the work of an array of established and younger scholars who are thinking about the astonishing changes happening in contemporary India. This book will be an invaluable guide to the sociological and anthropological rethinking of Indian society and culture."<br /> <i>Akhil Gupta, UCLA</i></p>

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