Public Faces, Private Voices - Community and Individuality in South India

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List of contents

List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Individuality in South India

PART ONE. PUBLIC FACES

2. The Nature of Civic Individuality
3. Institutions and Big-men of a Madras City
Community: George Town Today
4. Making the Community: George Town
in Social History
5. A Portrait of Change
6. The Decline of Community and
the Roles of Big-men

PART TWO. PRIVATE VOICES

7. Themes of Individuality in Private and
Public Lives: Personal Narratives
8. Locating Individuality within the Collective Context
9. Conclusions

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mattison Mines is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of the The Warrior Merchants: Textiles, Trade, and Territory in South India (1984).

Summary

Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. This text brings together personal life stories, historical description and theoretical analysis to define individuality in South Asia.

Product details

• Authors: M. Mines, Mattison Mines, Mines Mattison
• Assisted by: Mattison Mines (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.1994
• EAN: 9780520084797
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08479-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Asia, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social groups, Social, group or collective psychology, Social groups, communities and identities