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A Companion to the Anthropology of India
"This marvelous exploration of the ‘new' India is also a triumphant vindication of the old anthropological virtues of closely attending to the particularity of other people's lives." "This collection cuts loose from earlier ethnographic and theoretical interests to focus on India seen through the theoretical lens of globalization." "This is an excellent, highly readable, sample of current work on the social anthropology of India, a "must" for anyone interested in developments in Indian society today." "This exciting volume showcases the work of an array of established and younger scholars who are thinking about the astonishing changes happening in contemporary India. This book will be an invaluable guide to the sociological and anthropological rethinking of Indian society and culture."
Jonathan Spencer, Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh
Mattison Mines, University of California Santa Barbara
Peter van der Veer, Director Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Akhil Gupta, UCLA
Isabelle Clark-Decès (Edited by)
9781405198929, Wiley
Hardback, published 4 February 2011
576 pages
24.9 x 17.5 x 3.6 cm, 1.111 kg
"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)
A Companion to the Anthropology of India 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.
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India 23 2 Caste, Class, and Untouchability 45 3 Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India 62 4 The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans 80 5 Caste and Collective Memory in South India 98 Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics 115 7 Global Dancing in Kolkata 137 8 Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire 154 9 Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras 169 10 Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India 186 11 Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City 202 Part III Cultures and Religion in the Making 223 13 Hindu–Muslim Relations and the “War on Terror” 241 14 Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine 260 15 Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency 277 Part IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism 295 17 Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics 313 18 India Burning: The Maoist Revolution 332 Part V Law, Governance, and Civil Society 353 20 Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence 371 21 Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective 389 22 Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi 407 23 Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai’s Settlements 426 Part VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change 443 25 India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives 464 26 Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness 482 27 Ways of Aging 500 28 The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives 517 Index 536
Isabelle Clark-Decès
1 Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes 25
Christophe Z. Guilmoto
Robert Deliège
Craig Jeffrey
C. J. Fuller
Zoé E. Headley
6 “How to Sit, How to Stand”: Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class 117
Meredith Lindsay McGuire
Pallabi Chakravorty
Joseph S. Alter
Jenny Huberman
Mira Mohsini
Ajay Gandhi
12 Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India 225
Shaila Bhatti and Christopher Pinney
Philippa Williams
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Mathew N. Schmalz
16 The Politics of Communalism and Caste 297
Ornit Shani
Tarini Bedi
Alpa Shah
19 Courts of Law and Legal Practice 355
Daniela Berti
Beatrice Jauregui
John Harriss
Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley
Nikhil Anand
24 Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia 445
Leo Coleman
Cecilia Van Hollen
Sarah Pinto
Sarah Lamb
Isabelle Clark-Decès
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
