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  • Poverty and the Quest for Life

    Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

    de Bhrigupati Singh ...
    The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest ... Leer más

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  • The Ground Between

    Anthropologists Engage Philosophy

    Edición de Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Bhrigupati Singh, Michael Jackson ...
    The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are ... Leer más

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

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  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    de Radhika Govindrajan ...
    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Leer más

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  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Edición de Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Leer más

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  • Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

    An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

    de B. R. Ambedkar ...
    One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression ... Leer más

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  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin

    Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present

    de M.S.S.Pandian ...
    In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edición de Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Leer más

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  • Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation

    The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India

    de Alain Daniélou ...
    What is the Nature of the social order that unquestionably produced one of the greatest and longest lasting civilizations known to humankind? Alain Daniélou, distinguished Orientalist, musicologist, and linguist, reveals the foundations of India's culture and the four aims of human life as they are viewed in the traditional Hindu society: virtue on a moral plane; success on the material and social ... Leer más

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  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    de Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Libro 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Leer más

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  • Gandhi's Experiments with Truth

    Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi

    de Douglas Allen, Judith M. Brown, Richard A. Falk, Michael Nagler, Makarand Paranjape, Glenn Paige, Bhikhu Parekh, Anthony J. Parel, Lloyd I. Rudolph, Michael Sonnleitner, Ronald J. Terchek ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books-An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning ... Leer más

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