South Asia in Transition
An Introduction to the Social Anthropology of a Subcontinent
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1178-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1178-9 (ISBN)
South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This work is suitable for students and scholars at all levels.
South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region of the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first set of chapters deal mostly with India, being successively on caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. The second set of chapters deal successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region of the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first set of chapters deal mostly with India, being successively on caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. The second set of chapters deal successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Robert Parkin, PhD, is independent scholar of anthropology.
Introduction: Anthropology and South Asia, Anthropology of South Asia
Caste: The South Asian Social Group
Caste and Class in Modern South Asia
The Tribe in South Asia: Like Caste or Unlike?
Religions in South Asia: Of Indian Soil and Imported
Kinship and Marriage in India: Traditional Practices and Modern Changes
Gender, the Body and Personhood: Patriarchy and Resistance
Politics in Modern India: Policy versus Faction
Political Economy of Modern India: From Formality to Precarity
Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Asian Islam
Sri Lanka: Buddhist Nationalism and Tamil Separatism
Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to Republic
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 644 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-1178-5 / 1793611785 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-1178-9 / 9781793611789 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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