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Author : Steven M. Parish
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Total Pages : 1106 pages
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Download or read book Hierarchy and Person in the Moral World of the Newars written by Steven M. Parish and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven M. Parish
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805432
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Hierarchy and Its Discontents written by Steven M. Parish and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system fascinates Western scholars because it forms the basis for South Asian society—but how does it affect its participants?
Author : Aparna Rao
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819031
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Autonomy written by Aparna Rao and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years on concepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains largely neglected. This is the first study to examine the individual-dividual debate empirically from the - emic - perspective of decision making, observed over a two-year period among the Bakkarwal, Himalayan Muslim pastoralists. Of particular significance is the fact that the author bases her approach on the life cycle and on gender and status differences.
Author : Melford E. Spiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070071
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality written by Melford E. Spiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do members of a society espouse culturally constituted beliefs that are at odds with their personal interests and experiences? This text answers this question by investigating ideologies of gender and sex relations in Burma.
Author : Prem Saran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136516476
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara written by Prem Saran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a social–scientific interpretation of the 15 centuries-old Hindu and Buddhist traditions of tantra. It is a self-reflexive study, informed by an insider’s empathy and the apprehension of an Indologist-cum-anthropologist who is also a mystic and an initiated practitioner of the cult himself. Using his personal praxis to inform his research, the author examines three core themes tantra: a ‘holonic’ mandalic individuality that conduces to the mystical experience; a positive valorisation of pleasure and play; and cultural attitudes of gender-mutuality and complementarity as neatly encapsulated in the icon of Shiva as Ardhanariswara. This analysis —as captured by the tantric mandalas of deities in intimate union who vividly enact the three themes — leads to his compelling metathesis, that of tantra serving as a permanent counterculture within Indic civilisation. This book should be of interest to those in anthropology, South Asian studies, religious studies, gender studies, psychology, and philosophy, as also the general reader.
Author : Alka Hingorani
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082483724X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Making Faces written by Alka Hingorani and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taberam Soni, Labh Singh, Amar Singh, and other artists live and work in the hill-villages of the lower Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh, India. There they fashion face-images of deities (mohras) out of thin sheets of precious metal. Commissioned by upper-caste patrons, the objects are cultural embodiments of divine and earthly kinship. As the artists make the images, they also cross caste boundaries in a part of India where such differences still determine rules of contact and correspondence, proximity and association. Once a mohra has been completed and consecrated, its maker is not permitted to touch it or enter the temple in which it is housed; yet during its creation the artist is sovereign, treated deferentially as he shares living quarters with the high-caste patrons. Making Faces tells the story of these god-makers, the gods they make, and the communities that participate in the creative process and its accompanying rituals. For the author, the process of learning about Himachal, its art and artists, the people who make their home there, involved pursuing itinerant artists across difficult mountainous terrain with few, if any, means of communication between the thinly populated, high-altitude villages. The harsh geography of the region permits scant travel, and the itinerant artisan forms a critical link to the world outside; villages that commission mohras are often populated by a small number of families. Alka Hingorani evokes this world in rich visual and descriptive detail as she explores the ways in which both object and artisan are received and their identities transformed during a period of artistic endeavor. Making Faces is an original and evocative account, superbly illustrated, of the various phases in the lifecycle of a mohra, at different times a religious icon, an art object, and a repository of material wealth in an otherwise subsistence economy. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of anthropology, material culture, religion, art history, and South Asian studies.
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations on Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debra Skinner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847685998
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Selves in Time and Place written by Debra Skinner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts. Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawing upon their ethnographic research in Nepal to examine closely how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. The diversity of peoples, recent political transformations, and nation-building efforts make Nepal an especially rich locale to examine people's struggles to define and position themselves. But the authors move beyond geographical boundaries to more theoretical terrain to problematicize the ways in which people recreate or contest certain identities and positions. Various authors explore how people_positioned by gender, ethnicity, and locale_use cultural genres to produce aspects of identities and experiences; they examine how subjectivities, agencies and cultural worlds co-develop and are shaped through engagement with cultural forms; and they portray the appropriation of multiple voices for self and group formation. As such, this collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the mutual constitution of selves and society.
Author : Erin Patrice Moore
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book He who Owns the Stick Owns the Buffalo written by Erin Patrice Moore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to Departments of Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven M. Parish
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231084390
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City written by Steven M. Parish and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city of Bhaktapur. The author investigates how the citizens have developed moral awareness in the context of cultural life.
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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Susan Thickstun
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Culture and Self written by Mary Susan Thickstun and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1252 pages
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Download or read book Index to American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane P. Mines
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013577
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Everyday Life in South Asia written by Diane P. Mines and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated: An “eminently readable, highly engaging” anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University). For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth culture. Clear and engaging writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
Author : Joseph Chittooparampil
Publisher : Ispck
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Cultural Hermeneusis on Caste Culture, Its Discontents and Politics of Culture written by Joseph Chittooparampil and published by Ispck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian context.
Download or read book THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES VOL. 55 NO. 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
