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| 21. |  | Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928  Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Aging | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Devī: goddesses of India Author: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Author: Bardhan, Kalpana Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Fiction | South Asia Publisher's Description: Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical struc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United States Author: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Asian Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 Author: Wadley, Susan Snow 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur - the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser - as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia Author: Strathern, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Women's Studies | Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia Author: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Politics | Asian History | Religion Publisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Aryans and British India Author: Trautmann, Thomas R Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian History | European History Publisher's Description: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Similar Items |