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This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. It will be of interest to anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, and cultural and social theory.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1. Making Up Leprosy in India; Chapter 2. ‘The Burial of the Dead’: Symbolic Space and Identity among the Muslims of Kolkata; Chapter 3. Conceiving De-kinning: Practices of Pre-birthing in IVF Clinics in India; Chapter 4. Making and Un-making of a New Biosocial Subject: Folk Ayurvedic Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary India; Chapter 5. Biological Citizenship and Ethnicity: Experiences of Sickle Cell Anemia in the Tharu Community in Southwestern Nepal; Chapter 6. Family Size and Couple’s Will: Evidence from Household Data of India; Chapter 7. Fluctuating Reproductive Practices in the Age of Precariousness: Birth Spacing in Contemporary Nepal; Chapter 8. Patching the Relation of Care: An Essay on Senility, Intimacy, and Old Age Allowance in Urban Sri Lanka; Chapter 9. Health and Ageing in Bhutan: How Can We Build a Sustainable Health Care System for Senior Citizens?; Chapter 10. Ironies, Transnationality, and Care; Chapter 11. Precarity, Illness, and Stigmatised Marginality: Living with Arsenicosis in the Bangladeshi Cultural Context; Chapter 12. Living with Bodily Contingency: Miscarriage Among Childless Women in India; Chapter 13. Displaced Death: Grief, Ambiguity and Practices of Waiting in Post-War Sri Lanka; Chapter 14. Commemorating a Self-immolator: A Case Study of Responses to Self-Immolation in a Tibetan Refugee Society in India
About the author
Mizuho Matsuo is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.
Sae Nakamura is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Kenta Funahashi is Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryukoku University, Japan.
Summary
This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. It will be of interest to anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, and cultural and social theory.
