Ester Gallo

The Fall of Gods

Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rich in anthropological detail and incisive analyses, The Fall of Gods makes original contributions to the understanding of connection between gendered family relations and class mobility, and foregrounds the complex linkages between political history, memory, and the private domain of kinship relations, in the making of Indias middle classes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199469307
• ISBN-10: 019946930X
• Artikelnr.: 52530119

Autorenporträt

Ester Gallo is a lecturer in anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, and Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Graph, and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Kinship, Memory, and Indian Middle- Classes
1.: Some Moments in History
2: From Gods to Human Beings: Mapping Generational Histories
3: Debts of Identity: On Written Memories and Middle-Classness
4: The Illam and Its Dispersion
5: Recalling the Beauty of Impurity
6: Family Histories, Reproduction, and Migration
7: On Irony, Brahminism, and Intergeneration
Conclusion: The Thin Elephant in a
Crowded Shed
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
About the Author