TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark- Deces, Isabel
TI  - Companion to the anthropology of India
SN  - 9781405198929
U1  - 301.0954 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - West Sussex
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - India-Social conditions
KW  - India -- Economic conditions
N1  - Part I: Caste and Class in Liberal India. 1. Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes and Classes / Christophe Guilmoto --
2. Caste, Class and Untouchability / Robert Deliege --
3. Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India / Craig Jeffrey --
4. The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans / Christopher Fuller --
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 --
7. Global Dancing in Kolkata / Pallabi Chakravorty --
8. Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire / Joe Alter --
9. Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras / Jennifer Huberman --
10. Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi / Mira Mohsini --
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 --
13. Hindu-Muslim Relations and the 'War on Terror' / Philippa Williams --
14. Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi --
15. Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency / Mathew N. Schmalz. Part IV: Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism. 16. The Politics of Communalism and Caste / Ornit Shani --
17. Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics / Tarini Bedi --
18. India Burning: The Maoist Revolution / Alpa Shah. Part V: Law, Governance and Civil Society. 19. Courts of Law and Legal Practice / Daniela Berti --
20. Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence / Beatrice Jauregui --
21. Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective / John Harriss --
22. Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi / Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley --
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 --
25. India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives / Cecilia Van Hollen --
26. Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness / Sarah Pinto --
27. Ways of Aging / Sarah Lamb --
28. The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives / Isabelle Clark-Decès
N2  - 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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