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. A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad... Lees meer.

Writing in Anthropology. A Brief Guide applies the key concepts of rhetoric and composition-audience purpose genre and credibility-to examples based in anthropology. It is part of a series of brief discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press des... Lees meer.

Cultural Anthropology. Contemporary Public and Critical Readings Second Edition helps students think anthropologically by introducing core concepts through engaging case studies. These timely readings will generate discussion among students regarding the value of a... Lees meer.

Bastar remained outside the country I knew and with which I was familiar. the scent of sal hinting at something more refreshing than the goals to which India aspired. Madhu Ramnath spent thirty years with the Durwa peoples in Bastar. What began as impulsive travel to... Lees meer.

Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five years of research in and around India s Special Economic Zones SEZs the book follows the stories of regional politicians cor... Lees meer.

Why has India s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy. Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent this book shows how India s untouchables and tribals fit into the global economy. India s D... Lees meer.

This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary ethnograhic and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans. This book e... Lees meer.

Indian Anthropology is an important contribution to the history of Indian anthropology focusing on its formative period. It looks at the political economy of knowledge production and the anthropological discourse in Bombay during the late nineteenth century. Indian... Lees meer.

Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India Nishaant Choksi examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy to provide one of the first comprehensive theoretical and ethnographical accounts of gr... Lees meer.

This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analyzing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives. This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analysing... Lees meer.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India. As such it sheds light on a much neglected and contested topic. Arising in the context of recent legal and political debates that question the legitimacy of non-state... Lees meer.

This book investigates the entangled relations between people s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit b ta worship in the coastal area of Karnataka it examines the relationship between people and deities. Th... Lees meer.

This book examines the process of domination of a civilisation and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India. It explores how they extended and maintained their tenuous rule over India through coercion violent oppression and exploration of knowledge of this... Lees meer.

In Medical Tourism Inequity in India Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry the commodification of the Indian healthcare system and the local populatio... Lees meer.

Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India Nishaant Choksi examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy to provide one of the first comprehensive theoretical and ethnographical accounts of gra... Lees meer.