Yulia Egorova, Shahid Perwez

Jews of Andhra Pradesh

Contesting Caste and Religion in South India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book devoted to the Bene Ephraim--a group of former untouchables in Andhra Pradesh who have claimed Jewish identity for themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199929214
• ISBN-10: 0199929211
• Artikelnr.: 37649892

Autorenporträt

Yulia Egorova is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University. Her research interests include anthropology of Jewish communities and the relationship between science and religion. She is the author of Jews and India: Perceptions and Image, and a co-author (with Tudor Parfitt) of Genetics, Mass Media and Identity: A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba and Bene-Israel. Shahid Perwez is Fellow in International Development at the University of Bath. He has conducted ethnographic research involving long periods of fieldwork in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. His research has explored issues of gender, health, social mobilization, religion and caste in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Re-discovering the past of Jewish Dalits
Chapter 3. The Bene Ephraim between Judaism(s)
Chapter 4. All of us
Chapter 5. The Children of Israel
Chapter 6. The Other Bene Ephraim
Chapter 7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index