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This vivid anthology of ethnographic writing on South Asia focuses on the daily lives of people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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This vivid anthology focuses on the daily lives and experiences of people living in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Firsthand ethnographic accounts portray the ways ordinary people live and make their worlds through growing up and ageing, arranging marriages, exploring sexuality, going to school, negotiating caste hierarchies, practising religion, participating in popular culture, enduring violence as nations are built, and moving abroad to make new lives. Drawing from anthropology, history, religious studies, and other fields, scholars from South Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom present the diversity of life situations and perspectives in contemporary South Asia.Essays are organised around six themes: the family and the life course; genders; practising religion; social distinctions of caste and class; nation-making; and globalisation, public culture and the South Asian diaspora.The selections portray peasant girls in rural Rajasthan and advertising industry executives in Mumbai; 'untouchable' sharecroppers and high-caste landlords; intimate, multi-generational families and street youth involved in 'modern' gangs and drugs; South Asian American children of high-powered professionals, and refugees from violence who have fled abroad only in desperation.The essays on gender move from women in traditional arranged marriages, to women who forego marriage as professional actresses, to men in same-sex relationships, to transgendered hijras. The variety of religions of South Asia are portrayed with essays on Hindu deities and festivals, Muslim story-tellers and singers, Buddhist nuns in remote Kashmir, and a Yolmo shamanic healer. This accessible and engaging book provides an introduction to the region that will appeal to students, specialists, and all readers interested in South Asian culture and social life.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; MapIntroductionI. The Family and the Life CourseIntroductionOne Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan S. WadleyAllah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery"Out Here in Kathmandu:" Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban Nepal Mark Liechty The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto Benedicte GrimaLove and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah LambMemorializing the Self: The Autobiographical Will and Testament of Narayana Guruviah Chetty, Madras City, 1915 Mattison MinesII. GendersIntroductionNew Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North India Ann Grodzins GoldFamily and Gender Systems in Transition: A 35-Year Perspective Susan SeymourRoadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India Susan SeizerNervous Masculinity: Consumption and the Production of Embodied Gender in Indian Wrestling Joseph S. AlterDosti and Tamanna: Male-Male Love, Difference, and Normativity in Hindi Cinema Ruth VanitaLife on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena NandaIII. Social Distinctions of Caste and ClassIntroductionGod-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City Steven M. ParishHigh and Low Castes in Karani Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc RacineThe Erasure of Everyday Life In Colonial Ethnography Gloria Goodwin RahejaAnjali's Prospects: Class Mobility in Urban India Sara DickeySeven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste SystemIV. Practicing ReligionIntroductionThe Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village Diane P. MinesThe Feast of Love McKim MarriottThe Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir Kim GutschowPresence: Yolmo Spirit-Callings in Nepal Robert DesjarlaisTunes Rising From the Soul and Other Narcissistic Prayers: Contested Realms in Bangladesh Jim WilceV. Nation-makingIntroductionPolitical Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power J. Bernard BateOutsiders at Home? The South Asian Diaspora in South Asia Gautam GhoshWhy Do Hindus and Muslims Fight?: Children and History in India Nita KumarWalking Through Violence: "Everyday Life" and Anthropology Pradeep JeganathanInterviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka Margaret TrawickVI. Globalization, Public Culture, and the South Asian DiasporaIntroductionCindy at the Taj: Cultural Enclosure and Corporate Potentateship in an Era of Globalization William MazzarellaA Diaspora Ramayana in Southall Paula RichmanBritish Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation Kathleen HallPlacing Lives Through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans Kirin NarayanUnexpected Destinations E. Valentine DanielReferencesContributorsIndex
