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Informationen zum Autor Diane P. Mines is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is author of Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village (IUP, 2005). Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (IUP, 2009). Klappentext Clear and engaged writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists. Zusammenfassung An anthology that provides a view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. It explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Map I. The Family and the Life Course Introduction 1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley 2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery 3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban NepalMark Liechty 4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari Costanzo Kapur 5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb II. Genders Introduction 6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins Gold 7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India: RoadworkSusan Seizer 8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd 9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda 10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy III. Caste, Class and Community Introduction 11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System 12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu CitySteven M. Parish 13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine 14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz Rashid 15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey 16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty Lukose IV. Practicing Religion Introduction 17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines 18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott 19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow 20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern PakistanMagnus Marsden 21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan 22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger V. Nation-making Introduction 23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia 24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring 25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon 26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic PowerBernard Bate 27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch 28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret Trawick VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora Introduction 29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural LifeAnand Pandian 30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century India...
