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A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Beschreibung

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. Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics that include developments in population and life expectancy, caste and communalism, politics and law, public and religious cultures, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, civil society, social-moral relationships, environment and health. The broad variety of topics on Indian society is balanced with the larger global issues - demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, religious, and others - that have transformed the country since the end of colonization. Illuminating the continuity and diversity of Indian culture, A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers important insights into the myriad ways social scientists describe and analyze Indian society and its unique brand of modernity.

Autor

The Editor Isabelle Clark-Decès is Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Her books include The Encounter Never Ends: Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9781405198929
• ISBN-10: 1405198923
• Artikelnr.: 32874130

Rezensionen

"This volume provides a useful framework for and discussion of the complexity and range of recently published research on the anthropologies of the Indian subcontinent in the era of globalization . . . Summing up: Essential. All libraries supporting graduate and undergraduate programs in anthropology, sociology, and history." (Choice, 1July 2011)"This marvelous exploration of the 'new' India is also atriumphant vindication of the old anthropological virtues ofclosely attending to the particularity of other people'slives."
Jonathan Spencer, Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia,University of Edinburgh

"This collection cuts loose from earlier ethnographic andtheoretical interests to focus on India seen through thetheoretical lens of globalization."
Mattison Mines, University of California Santa Barbara

"This is an excellent, highly readable, sample of current workon the social anthropology of India, a "must" for anyone interestedin developments in Indian society today."
Peter van der Veer, Director Max Planck Institute for the Studyof Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

"This exciting volume showcases the work of an array ofestablished and younger scholars who are thinking about theastonishing changes happening in contemporary India. This book willbe an invaluable guide to the sociological and anthropologicalrethinking of Indian society and culture."
Akhil Gupta, UCLA