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Village matters : relocating villages in the contemporary anthropology of India / edited by Diane P. Mines, Nicolas Yazgi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0198063334
  • 9780198063339
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Contents:
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).
Summary: Contributed papers based on presentations at a panel in connection with the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, held at Lund, Sweden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Contributed papers based on presentations at a panel in connection with the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, held at Lund, Sweden.

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