Village matters: relocating villages in the contemporary anthropology of India

This collection of essays revisits and re-situates the 'village' in the social and humanistic study of India. They also address anthropology's forfeiture of the village as a subject of study in an era of globalization. INDICE: Introduction: Do Villages Matter? (Diane P. Mines and Nicolas Yazgi); SECTION I: CONTEXTS; 1.: Lost and Found: Villages Between Anthropology and History (Saurabh Dube); SECTION II: CRAFTING SELVES, OTHERS, AND SOCIETY; 2.: Villages on the Campaign Trail (Nicolas Yazgi); 3.: Villages Agency (William S. Sax); 4.: Why Sacred Groves Matter: Post-romantic Claim (Anne Grodzins Gold); 5.: The Man Makes the Village Makes the Man: The Story of Varandan, the Common Irrigator of a Village in Northern Tamil Nadu (Bettina Weiz); 6.: Sect and the Quotidian in Village Life (Ishita Banerjee-Dube); 7.: A Village as Hermeneutcial Lens: Spaces of Rural Hindu-Muslim Interactions (Peter Gottschalk);SECTION III: PROJECTIONS; 8.: From Village to Shantytown: Poverty and Mobility in the Popular Films of the New India (Ronald Inden); 9.: The Village in Cinema (M. Madhava Prasad); 10.: Arms and the World: Village Apshinge (Maharashtra) Bounding and Extending Where (Lee I. Schelsinger); SECTION IV: COMPARATIVE EPISTIMOLOGIES; 11.: The Rural Community, Or the Disappearing Act of French Anthropology (Octave Debary); 12.: The Village as Frontier in Africa (Deborah Durham); Afterword (E. Valentine Daniel); References

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806333-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 25/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés