Everyday Life in South Asia
Herausgeber: Mines, Diane P; Lamb, Sarah E
Everyday Life in South Asia
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Clear and engaged writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
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Clear and engaged writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
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- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- 2nd edition
- Seitenzahl: 584
- Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 825g
- ISBN-13: 9780253221940
- ISBN-10: 0253221943
- Artikelnr.: 28513704
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- 2nd edition
- Seitenzahl: 584
- Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 825g
- ISBN-13: 9780253221940
- ISBN-10: 0253221943
- Artikelnr.: 28513704
Diane P. Mines is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is author of Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village (IUP, 2005). Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (IUP, 2009).
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Map
I. The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the
Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley
2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in
Urban NepalMark Liechty
4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari
Costanzo Kapur
5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb
II. Genders
Introduction
6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins
Gold
7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India:
RoadworkSusan Seizer
8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd
9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda
10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual
Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy
III. Caste, Class and Community
Introduction
11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System
12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu
CitySteven M. Parish
13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc
Racine
14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz
Rashid
15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey
16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty
Lukose
IV. Practicing Religion
Introduction
17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines
18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott
19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow
20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern
PakistanMagnus Marsden
21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan
22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter
Flueckiger
V. Nation-making
Introduction
23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia
24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring
25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers
and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon
26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of
Democratic PowerBernard Bate
27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan
Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch
28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret
Trawick
VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural
LifeAnand Pandian
30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in
Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar
31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman
32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall
33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the
Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan
34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian
AmericansKirin Narayan
35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel
References
Contributors
Index
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Map
I. The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the
Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley
2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in
Urban NepalMark Liechty
4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari
Costanzo Kapur
5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb
II. Genders
Introduction
6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins
Gold
7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India:
RoadworkSusan Seizer
8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd
9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda
10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual
Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy
III. Caste, Class and Community
Introduction
11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System
12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu
CitySteven M. Parish
13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc
Racine
14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz
Rashid
15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey
16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty
Lukose
IV. Practicing Religion
Introduction
17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines
18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott
19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow
20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern
PakistanMagnus Marsden
21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan
22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter
Flueckiger
V. Nation-making
Introduction
23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia
24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring
25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers
and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon
26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of
Democratic PowerBernard Bate
27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan
Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch
28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret
Trawick
VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural
LifeAnand Pandian
30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in
Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar
31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman
32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall
33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the
Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan
34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian
AmericansKirin Narayan
35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel
References
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Map
I. The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the
Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley
2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in
Urban NepalMark Liechty
4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari
Costanzo Kapur
5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb
II. Genders
Introduction
6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins
Gold
7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India:
RoadworkSusan Seizer
8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd
9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda
10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual
Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy
III. Caste, Class and Community
Introduction
11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System
12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu
CitySteven M. Parish
13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc
Racine
14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz
Rashid
15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey
16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty
Lukose
IV. Practicing Religion
Introduction
17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines
18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott
19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow
20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern
PakistanMagnus Marsden
21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan
22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter
Flueckiger
V. Nation-making
Introduction
23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia
24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring
25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers
and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon
26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of
Democratic PowerBernard Bate
27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan
Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch
28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret
Trawick
VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural
LifeAnand Pandian
30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in
Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar
31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman
32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall
33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the
Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan
34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian
AmericansKirin Narayan
35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel
References
Contributors
Index
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Map
I. The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the
Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley
2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in
Urban NepalMark Liechty
4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari
Costanzo Kapur
5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb
II. Genders
Introduction
6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins
Gold
7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India:
RoadworkSusan Seizer
8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd
9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda
10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual
Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy
III. Caste, Class and Community
Introduction
11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System
12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu
CitySteven M. Parish
13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc
Racine
14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz
Rashid
15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey
16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty
Lukose
IV. Practicing Religion
Introduction
17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines
18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott
19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow
20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern
PakistanMagnus Marsden
21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan
22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter
Flueckiger
V. Nation-making
Introduction
23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia
24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring
25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers
and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon
26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of
Democratic PowerBernard Bate
27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan
Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch
28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret
Trawick
VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural
LifeAnand Pandian
30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in
Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar
31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman
32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall
33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the
Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan
34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian
AmericansKirin Narayan
35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel
References
Contributors
Index