Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India.
Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, Germany and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India.
Foreword / Thomas Gibson vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Fragment and the Whole 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48 Part II. Civilization and Comparison 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61 4. The Afterlife of Images 80 Part III. Comparing Exclusion 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130 A Short Conclusion 147 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 183
Foreword / Thomas Gibson vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Fragment and the Whole 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48 Part II. Civilization and Comparison 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61 4. The Afterlife of Images 80 Part III. Comparing Exclusion 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130 A Short Conclusion 147 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 183
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