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Author : K. K. N. Kurup
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170990949
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Modern Kerala written by K. K. N. Kurup and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on land tenure and social change; covers chiefly up to the mid-20th century.
Author : Filippo Osella
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745316932
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Social Mobility In Kerala written by Filippo Osella and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the processes involved, the ideologies that support or thwart it, and what happens to the people involved. They focus on the caste called Izhavas, a group that in the mid-19th century consisted of a small land-owning and titled elite and a large mass of landless and small tenants who were largely illiterate and considered untouchable, and who eked out a living by manual labor and petty trade. In the 20th century, Izhavas pursued mobility in many social arenas, both as a newly united caste and as families. The work considers how successful the mobility has been and looks at the effects on their society of an ethos of progress. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : A. Sreedhara Menon
Publisher : D C Books
ISBN 13 : 9788126437825
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Kerala History and its Makers written by A. Sreedhara Menon and published by D C Books. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the history of Kerala with special attention to selected historical personages who had played significant roles in shaping the history of Kerala through the ages.
Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134061110
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of India written by Peter Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.
Author : Swapna Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187358268
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Enigma of the Kerala Woman written by Swapna Mukhopadhyay and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles with reference to the state of Kerala, India.
Author : Indudharan Menon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429663129
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Hereditary Physicians of Kerala written by Indudharan Menon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala’s heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical, historical, sociocultural, ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala’s last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers, poison therapists, Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology, health and social medicine, sociology and social anthropology, the history of science and modern Indian history, as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine.
Author : Satheese Chandra Bose
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 : 9788125057222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Kerala Modernity written by Satheese Chandra Bose and published by UN. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southwest coast of India has always been a significant site within the global network of relations through trade and exchange of ideas, commodities, technologies, skills and labour. The much longer history of colonial experience makes Kerala's engagement with modernity polyvalent and complex. Without understanding the multiple space-times of this region, it is impossible to make sense of the complexities of Kerala modernity beyond its general description as 'Malayalee modernity'.
Author : David Stott
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1909268798
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Kerala Footprint Focus Guide written by David Stott and published by Footprint Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a rice boat tour of Kerala’s lyrical backwaters; endlessly intersecting rivers, streams and lagoons that flood the plains between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats. Watch the sun set from the ramshackle port city of Fort Kochi before heading inland to see the monkeys and macaques at Periyar National Park. From winding waterways to colourful festivals, Footprintfocus Kerala will prove an invaluable companion. • Essentials section with practical tips on getting there and around. • Background section with fascinating information on the region’s unique history and culture. • Comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep & play including fishing and birdwatching. • Detailed street maps for important cities and towns. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. Loaded with advice and information, this concise Footprintfocus guide will help you get the most out of Kerala without weighing you down.
Author : Binu John Mailaparambil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180214
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lords of the Sea: The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar (1663-1723) written by Binu John Mailaparambil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing mainly on the Mappila Muslim trading family of the Arackal Ali Rajas, this book throws light on the repercussions of European commercial expansion on the traditional socio-political relations in the South Indian kigdom of Cannanore during the early-modern period.
Author : John McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Modern India written by John McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume thematic encyclopedia examines life in contemporary India, with topical sections focusing on geography, history, government and politics, economy, social classes and ethnicity, religion, food, etiquette, literature and drama, and more. Modern Indian, an addition to the Understanding Modern Nations series, is an in-depth and interdisciplinary encyclopedia. While many books on life in India exist today, this volume is unique as a concise, accessible overview of multiple aspects of Indian society and history. It will be a useful background or supplemental text for anyone interested in modern Indian life and culture. Individual chapters address all aspects of life in 21st-century India, from geography and history to economy and religion to etiquette and sports. Each chapter begins with an overview, followed by entries on, for example, major political parties or literary works. Each overview and entry is self-contained and accompanied by an up-to-date Further Reading list.
Author : Govinda Parayil
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856497275
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Kerala: the Development Experience written by Govinda Parayil and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting, alternative models of development are being revisited. Kerala's 30 million people may not have experienced rapid growth in GDP per capita, but they have for the past several decades achieved a remarkable social record in terms of adult literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, stabilising population growth, and narrowing gender and spatial gaps.What are the implications of the disjuncture between human development and economic growth? What are the political, social and cultural factors responsible for Kerala's success? Does its human development record necessarily relate to sustainability in environmental terms? How inclusive has the Kerala model been, particularly for the fishing community and other socially marginalised groups?Can the new people's campaign for decentralised development from below make Kerala's development experience more enduring? What realistic view can be taken of its replicability elsewhere in India or further afield in the South? These are among the most important questions explored in this timely reassessment.
Author : Gayatri Gopinath
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002166
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Unruly Visions written by Gayatri Gopinath and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography, these cultural forms—which Gopinath conceptualizes as aesthetic practices of queer diaspora—reveal the intimacies of seemingly disparate histories of (post)colonial dwelling and displacement and are a product of diasporic trajectories. Countering standard formulations of diaspora that inevitably foreground the nation-state, as well as familiar formulations of queerness that ignore regional gender and sexual formations, she stages unexpected encounters between works by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza. Gopinath shows how their art functions as regional queer archives that express alternative understandings of time, space, and relationality. The queer optics produced by these visual practices creates South-to-South, region-to-region, and diaspora-to-region cartographies that profoundly challenge disciplinary and area studies rubrics. Gopinath thereby provides new critical perspectives on settler colonialism, empire, military occupation, racialization, and diasporic dislocation as they indelibly mark both bodies and landscapes.
Author : Jocelyn Lim Chua
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957644
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of the Good Life written by Jocelyn Lim Chua and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.
Author : Biju Mathew
Publisher : Biju Mathew | Info Kerala Communications Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8192128482
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Kerala Tradition & Fascinating Destinations written by Biju Mathew and published by Biju Mathew | Info Kerala Communications Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerala, perched on the Southern tip of Indian sub continent is an ever green tourist delight. Chosen by God as His own country, Kerala has everything that a tourist looks forward to. Virgin beaches, romantic backwaters, invigorating hill stations, enthralling waterfalls and great historical monuments craft Kerala one of the ten paradises in the world. With moderate climate and civilized people the state is immensely blessed by Mother Nature. If marriages are made in Heaven, what better place to have the ceremony than in God’s Own Country? Yes, Kerala is becoming one of the important Wedding Destinations in the world. As a wedding destination Kerala offers you many options as a beach wedding, a house boat wedding or a wedding by the hills. Along with, this historical land is fast becoming a popular MICE destination. Thanks to the numerous facilities available for Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions. With the most sought after professionals and excellent network of hospitals India is becoming the very hot medical tourism destination in the world. It is the land of everlasting festivals and vibrant art forms. The multicultural land with peoples from diverse religions, communities and sects is an abode of prosperous legacy. The year-round festivals proffer golden opportunities to explore the tradition and cultural heritage of this great historical soil. The uniqueness of ayurveda brings the person to a new sphere of rejuvenation. The system is the consequence of vigorous contemplation and researches of great scholars. And, we are equipped for you with a prelude of God’s own country. We offer indispensable insights about wedding tourism, MICE tourism, medical tourism, pilgrimage tourism, monsoon tourism, plantation tourism, festivals, art forms, ayurveda and accommodation facilities along with the fascinating destinations under the fourteen districts.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1405388048
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Kerala written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Kerala will guide you through India's tropical southwest tip, with reliable information and clearly explained cultural background. Whether you're looking for great places to eat and drink, inspiring accommodation or the most exciting things to see and do, you'll find the solution. Discover Kerala with stunning photography and information on everything from the best beaches and lagoon resorts to treehouse hideaways on tea plantations in the hills. Plus, you'll find extensive coverage of attractions in the region, from the tranquil beaches, backwaters and rice barges to elephant processions, kathakali dance drama and temple festivals. Accurate maps, backed up by full-colour sections showcasing the state's vibrant theatre traditions, make The Rough Guide to Kerala your ultimate travelling companion. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Kerala.
Author : Baiju Natarajan
Publisher : Marg Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cities of Kerala, Actually Small Towns written by Baiju Natarajan and published by Marg Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kerala, it is difficult to distinguish cities, towns, and villages. From Thiruvanathapuram in the south to Kannur in the north, it is one suburban stretch, at times village-like, at times city-like. As much as 75% of Keralites continue to reside in villages but they are fast becoming urban with schools, hospitals, banks, and other public utilities. Most of the writers who contributed essays are natives and have brought out the very urban, semi-urban, semi-rural mix that is as much a part of the Kerala landscape as its coastline, forests, and plantations.
Author : Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198910606
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala written by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf. Looking closely at the cultural archives produced by and on the Gulf migrants in Malayalam -- the predominant language of Kerala -- this book takes stock of circular migration beyond its economics. It combines formal and thematic analyses of photographs, films, and literature with anthropological and historical details to offer a nuanced understanding of the construction of the Gulf and its translation to the cultural imaginary of Kerala. It explores the dissonance between the private and public discourses on the Gulf among migrants and non-migrants, and demonstrates the role of this disjuncture in the continued fascination for Gulf migrant lives. An enquiry into the various dimensions of the Gulf in Kerala, as an acknowledged means of living, as a rumour, an object of gossip, a public secret, or even a private thrill, this book debunks the idea of language as a common entity and studies the tentative borders built within. Finally, it explores the resources, possibilities, and perils of affiliative communities constructed along and across those borders.
