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INDICE: Acknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Caste and Class in Liberal India. 1. Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes and Classes (Christophe Guilmoto, the French Research Institute for Development). 2. Caste, Class and Untouchability (Robert Deliege, University of Louvain-la-Neuve). 3. Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India (Craig Jeffrey, Oxford University). 4. The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans (Christopher Fuller, London School of Economics). 5. Caste and Collective Memory in South India (Zoe Headley, CEIAS ,CNRS, Paris). Part II: Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles and Urban Critics. 6. 'How to Sit, How to Stand': Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class (Meredith Lindsay McGuire, University of Chicago). 7. Global Dancing in Kolkata (Pallabi Chakravorty, Swarthmore College). 8. Yoga, Modernity and the Middle-Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire (Joe Alter, University of Pittsburgh). 9. Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras (Jennifer Huberman, University of Missouri-Kansas City). 10. Crafts, Artisans and the Nation-State in Delhi (Mira Mohsini)> 11. Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City (Ajay Gandhi, Yale University). Part III: Cultures and Religions in the Making. 12. Optic-clash: Modes of Visuality in India (Shaila Bhatti, University College London War on Terror (Philippa Williams, University of Cambridge). 14. Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine (Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, Rutgers University). 15. Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency (Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross). Part IV: Communalism, Nationalism and Terrorism. 16. The Politics of Communalism and Caste (Ornit Shani, University of Haifa). 17. Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Re-Examining Gender, and Non-Liberal Politics (Tarini Bedi, University of Chicago). 18. India Burning: The Maoist Revolution (Alpa Shah, Goldsmiths, University of London). Part V: Law, Governance and Civil Society. 19. Courts of Law and Legal Practice (Daniela Berti, CNRS, Paris). 20. Encounters Killings: The Routinization of State Violence (Beatrice Jauregui, Center for the Advanced Study of India). 21. Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective (John Harriss, London School of Economics). 22. Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi (Yaffa Truelove, University of Cambridge and Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge). 23. Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbais Settlements (Nikhil Anand, Stanford University). Part VI: From Global India to the Ethnography of Change. 24. Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia (Leo Coleman, Ohio State University). 25. India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives (Cecilia Van Hollen, Syracuse Universitys). 26. Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of

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• Páginas : 576
• Editorial : Wiley-Blackwell
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 04/02/2011
• ISBN: 9781405198929
• Encuadernación : Cartoné
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• País de Publicación : Reino Unido (INGLATERRA)