Everyday Life in South Asia
ISBN: 9780253221940 | 0253221943
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/16/2010
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This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. 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, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT profes... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Note on Transliteration | p. xi |
| Map | p. xiv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Family and the Life Course | |
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India | p. 14 |
| Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls | p. 26 |
| ôOut Here in Kathmanduö: Youth and the Contradictions of... MORE | p. 40 |
| Rethinking Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in an Indian Call Center | p. 50 |
| Love and Aging in Bengali Families | p. 62 |
| Genders | |
| Introduction | p. 75 |
| New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North India | p. 80 |
| Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India | p. 94 |
| Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux | p. 110 |
| Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story | p. 124 |
| Crossing ôLinesö of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India | p. 132 |
| Caste, Class, and Community | |
| Introduction | p. 145 |
| Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's | p. 153 |
| God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City | p. 155 |
| High and Low Castes in Karani | p. 171 |
| Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of Dhaka | p. 180 |
| Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban India | p. 192 |
| Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India | p. 206 |
| Practicing Religion | |
| Introduction | p. 219 |
| The Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village | p. 226 |
| The Feast of Love | p. 238 |
| The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir | p. 250 |
| Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern Pakistan | p. 263 |
| In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter, and a Jinn | p. 275 |
| Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in Hyderabad | p. 290 |
| Nation-Making | |
| Introduction | p. 309 |
| Voices from the Partition | p. 314 |
| A Day in the Life | p. 328 |
| Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred Duty | p. 343 |
| Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power | p. 354 |
| Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment Workers | p. 371 |
| Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka | p. 384 |
| Globalization, Public Culture, and the South Asian Diaspora | |
| Introduction | p. 399 |
| Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life | p. 406 |
| Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century India | p. 421 |
| A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall | p. 436 |
| British Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation | p. 448 |
| Examining the ôGlobalö Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit | p. 461 |
| Placing Lives through Stories: Second-Generation South Asian Americans | p. 472 |
| Unexpected Destinations | p. 487 |
| List of References | p. 503 |
| List of Contributors | p. 545 |
| Index | p. 549 |
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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).
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