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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781405198929 |
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eng |
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301.0954 |
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COM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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Clark- Deces, Isabel |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Companion to the anthropology of India |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
John Wiley, |
| Year of publication |
2011. |
| Place of publication |
West Sussex: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xii, 552 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
Blackwell companions to anthropology, 8. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Part I: Caste and Class in Liberal India. 1. Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes and Classes / Christophe Guilmoto --<br/>2. Caste, Class and Untouchability / Robert Deliege --<br/>3. Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India / Craig Jeffrey --<br/>4. The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans / Christopher Fuller --<br/>5. Caste and Collective Memory in South India / Zoe Headley. Part II: Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles and Urban Critics. 6. "How to Sit, How to Stand": Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class / Meredith Lindsay McGuire --<br/>7. Global Dancing in Kolkata / Pallabi Chakravorty --<br/>8. Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire / Joe Alter --<br/>9. Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras / Jennifer Huberman --<br/>10. Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi / Mira Mohsini --<br/>11. Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City / Ajay Gandhi. Part III: Cultures and Religions in the Making. 12. Optic-clash: Modes of Visuality in India / Shaila Bhatti & Christopher Pinney --<br/>13. Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror' / Philippa Williams --<br/>14. Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi --<br/>15. Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency / Mathew N. Schmalz. Part IV: Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism. 16. The Politics of Communalism and Caste / Ornit Shani --<br/>17. Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics / Tarini Bedi --<br/>18. India Burning: The Maoist Revolution / Alpa Shah. Part V: Law, Governance and Civil Society. 19. Courts of Law and Legal Practice / Daniela Berti --<br/>20. Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence / Beatrice Jauregui --<br/>21. Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective / John Harriss --<br/>22. Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi / Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley --<br/>23. Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai's Settlements / Nikhil Anand. Part VI: From Global India to the Ethnography of Change. 24. Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia / Leo Coleman --<br/>25. India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives / Cecilia Van Hollen --<br/>26. Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness / Sarah Pinto --<br/>27. Ways of Aging / Sarah Lamb --<br/>28. The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives / Isabelle Clark-Decès. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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. - Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of India. - Explores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issues - Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as 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 - Represents an authoritative guide for professional social and cultural anthropologists, and South Asian specialists, and an accessible reference work for students engaged in the analysis of India's modern transformation. |
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India-Social conditions. |
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India -- Economic conditions. |
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