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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective - Susan Bayly

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

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Buch | Hardcover
402 Seiten
2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-500-3 (ISBN)
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Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics including the lived experience of India’s caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Susan Bayly is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She was also the editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2000-2004). Her most recent publications include Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age. Vietnam, India and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 'Anthropology and History'. In Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. Matei Candea, ed. (London: Routledge, 2018).

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Introduction: Historicity, Power Relations, and Visuality as Perspectives on Asian Contexts



Chapter 1. Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode

Chapter 2. Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives

Chapter 3. At Home in the World of Work: Women, Work and Care in Late-Socialist Vietnam

Chapter 4. Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the Moral Citizen in Late-Socialist Vietnam

Chapter 5. How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today’s Vietnam

Chapter 6. Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene

Chapter 7. Reflections on Caste in South Asia

Chapter 8. Listening to Asian Voices in the Postcolonial Age



Conclusion: Morality, Achievement, Modernity, Comparison



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-80539-500-9 / 1805395009
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-500-3 / 9781805395003
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