Mines, Diane P.        <br/><br/>
Village matters :  relocating villages in the contemporary anthropology of India / 
edited by Diane P. Mines, Nicolas Yazgi. 
 - New Delhi ;  Oxford University Press,  2010. 
 - xiii, 390 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS: Introduction: Do villages matter? (Diane Mines  and Nicolas Yazgi) --  Lost and Found: Villages  Between  Anthropology and History (Saurabh Dube)-- Crafting  selves, others, and society -- Villages on the  Campaign  Trail (Nicolas Yazgi) --  Villages Agency  (William S.  Sax) --  Why Sacred Groves Matter: Post-romantic Claim  (Anne Grodzins Gold) --  The Man Makes the  Village Makes  the Man: The Story of Varandan, the Common  Irrigator of  a Village in Northern Tamil Nadu (Bettina  Weiz) -- Sect  and the Quotidian in Village Life (Ishita  Banerjee-Dube)  --  A Village as Hermeneutcial Lens:  Spaces of Rural  Hindu-Muslim Interactions (Peter  Gottschalk -- From  Village to Shantytown: Poverty and  Mobility in the  Popular Films of the New India (Ronald  Inden) -- The  Village in Cinema (M. Madhava Prasad) --   Arms and the  World: Village Apshinge (Maharashtra)  Bounding and  Extending Where (Lee I. Schelsinger) --  Comparative  Epistimologies  -- The Rural Community, Or  the  Disappearing Act of French Anthropology (Octave  Debary)  --  The Village as Frontier in Africa (Deborah  Durham) - -  Afterword (E. Valentine Daniel).       
<br/><br/> Contributed papers based on presentations at a panel in connection with the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, held at Lund, Sweden. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0198063334 9780198063339 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010316952 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social change--India.-- <br/>Sociology, Rural--India.-- <br/>Village communities--India.-- <br/>Villages--India.-- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Rural conditions.