Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951-
Published: University of California Press, 1992
Subjects: Anthropology |
Cultural Anthropology |
South AsiaPublisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . .
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