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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book South Asian Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swatahsiddha Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000581306
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology written by Swatahsiddha Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious and cultural divides of the region. Drawing from the experiences of Indian and Nepali social anthropology, the book discusses the presence of Nepal studies in Indian social anthropology and vice versa. It highlights Nepal or South Asia as a subject for social anthropological research and stresses on pluriversal knowledge production through regional scholarship, dialogic social anthropology, South Asian episteme, post-Western social anthropology and the decolonisation of disciplines. In exploring the themes and problems of doing social anthropology in Nepal by Indian scholars, the book assesses the scope of developing the South Asian social anthropological worldview. It explains why social anthropological and sociological inquiry in India has failed to surpass its focus beyond the territorial limits of the nation state. The book examines the issues of methodological nationalism and social anthropological research tradition in South Asia. By using the Saidian framework of travelling theory and Bhambra’s idea of connected sociologies, it shows how social anthropology can develop disciplinary crossroads within South Asia. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, social anthropology, South Asian sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, Nepal studies and Global South studies.
Author : Radhika Govindrajan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656004X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Animal Intimacies written by Radhika Govindrajan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies.” —Anthropology Matters What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the mountain villages of India’s Central Himalayas, Radhika Govindrajan’s book explores the number of ways that human and animal interact to cultivate relationships as interconnected, related beings. Whether it is through the study of the affect and ethics of ritual animal sacrifice, analysis of the right-wing political project of cow-protection, or examination of villagers’ talk about bears who abduct women and have sex with them, Govindrajan illustrates that multispecies relatedness relies on both difference and ineffable affinity between animals. Animal Intimacies breaks substantial new ground in animal studies, and Govindrajan’s detailed portrait of the social, political and religious life of the region will be of interest to cultural anthropologists and scholars of South Asia as well. “Immerses us in passionate case studies on the multiple relationships between Kumaoni villagers and animals in Uttarakhand.” —European Bulletin of Himalayan Research “A memorable and innovative ethnography.” —Piers Locke, University of Canterbury
Author : Robert Parkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793611793
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book South Asia in Transition written by Robert Parkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region or the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first group of chapters deals mostly with India and caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. A second group of chapters deals successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
Author : Jan Van Bremen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113427100X
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Asian Anthropology written by Jan Van Bremen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 148995001X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book The People of South Asia written by John Lukacs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ajantha Subramanian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424348X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Caste of Merit written by Ajantha Subramanian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
Author : Devi Lalita Sridhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788132112426
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Anthropologists Inside Organisations written by Devi Lalita Sridhar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past ten years there has been a shift in the field of anthropology towards working with and studying organisations. This book addresses this need by bringing together seven diverse case studies based in/on South Asian countries.
Author : John N Gray
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Society from the Inside Out written by John N Gray and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the household as a primary context for the reproduction, and not merely reflection, of society. Domestic groups of north and south India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indians in Malaysia are studied. Each paper is a critical exploration of the way the household is embedded in society and mediates individual consciousness and societal principles. The contributors demonstrate that the understanding of small scale institutions is integral to a more adequate theory of society.
Author : Ajantha Subramanian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786852
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Shorelines written by Ajantha Subramanian and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and reject the church's intermediary role. In Shorelines, Ajantha Subramanian argues that their struggle requires a rethinking of Indian democracy, citizenship, and environmentalism. Rather than see these fishers as non-moderns inhabiting a bounded cultural world, or as moderns wholly captured by the logic of state power, she illustrates how they constitute themselves as political subjects. In particular, she shows how they produced new geographies—of regionalism, common property, alternative technology, and fisher citizenship—that underpinned claims to rights, thus using space as an instrument of justice. Moving beyond the romantic myth of self-contained, natural-resource dependent populations, this work reveals the charged political maneuvers that bound subalterns and sovereigns in South Asia. In rich historical and ethnographic detail, Shorelines illuminates postcolonial rights politics as the product of particular histories of caste, religion, and development, allowing us to see how democracy is always "provincial."
Author : Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812599
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia written by Shinji Yamashita and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Author : Choong Soon Kim
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (642 download)
Download or read book An Asian anthropologist in the South written by Choong Soon Kim and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric C. Thompson
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Southeast Asian Anthropologies written by Eric C. Thompson and published by National University of Singapore Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. This book makes visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists with decades of experience in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in the region. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages. First, the historical development of traditions of research, scholarship, and social engagement across diverse anthropological communities of the region, which have adopted and adapted global anthropological trends to their local circumstances. Second, the opportunities and challenges faced by Southeast Asian anthropologists as they practise their craft in different political contexts. Third, the emergence of locally-grounded, intra-regional, transnational linkages and practices. The book contributes to a 21st-century, world anthropologies paradigm from a Southeast Asian perspective.
Author : Sarit K. Chaudhuri
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788132117421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Fieldwork in South Asia written by Sarit K. Chaudhuri and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites across South Asia without assuming or applying fixed normative rules for the whole region. In the process, the volume allows the reader to have an option to locate or relocate ethnographic or other forms of texts in the context of growing methodological contours and dilemmas in the social science. Above all, this is a book about relationships—multi-layered relationships among people encountered in the field, the ethnographic relationship itself, with all its personal raw edges, and relationship with the land and even non-human realms.
Author : Choong Soon Kim
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331884
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (318 download)
Download or read book One Anthropologist, Two Worlds written by Choong Soon Kim and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roxana Waterson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290601X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Living House written by Roxana Waterson and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples. The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, it reveals a much wider field of inquiry—covering all of the Austronesian peoples and cultures extending as far afield as Madagascar, Japan and the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. As it probes the centrally significant role of houses within South-East Asian social systems, The Living House reveals new insights into the kinship systems, gender symbolism and cosmological principles of the peoples who build them, ultimately uncovering fundamental themes concerning the concepts of life force and life processes inherent in all of these cultures. A vivid picture is produced of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people—how rules about layout and spatial usage impact social relationships. The book concludes with a consideration of present-day changes affecting the fates of indigenous cultures and architectures throughout the region. This book will be of tremendous interest to architects and historians, and anyone interested in the indigenous art and cultures of South-East Asia.
Author : Victor King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000143120
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia written by Victor King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.
