Critical events : an anthropological perspective on contemporary India / Veena Das and forwarded by Bhrigupati Singh.
By: Das, Veena.
Contributor(s): Singh, Bhrigupati [Forward.].
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BookPublisher: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: viii, 235 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780199485291 (pbk.); 019563540X.Subject(s): Victims of crimes | Victims of crimes -- India | Manners and customs -- India | Social conditions -- India | Ethnic relations -- IndiaDDC classification: 303.40954 Online resources: Publisher description and Content Page | Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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Indian Institute of Management Udaipur A3/2 | 303.40954 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and indexes.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Bhrigupati Singh
I. Introduction
II. The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and its Other
III. National Honour and Practical Kinship: Of Unwanted Women and Children
IV. Communities as Political Actors: The Question of Cultural Rights
V. Time, Self, and Community: Features of the Sikh Militant Discourse
VI. Suffering, Legitimacy, and Healing: The Bhopal Case
VII. The Anthropology of Pain
Epilogue
Afterword by Veena Das
References
Subject Index
Author Index
Critical Events recasts the anthropological understanding of individual bodies and social bodies, as well as the creation of community by looking at moments of rupture and their implications for redefining social life in contemporary India. Ranging from the Partition of India to the industrial disaster in Bhopal, the events examined in the book illuminate and transform the way anthropology generates its concepts. taken from Publisher's Site.
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