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Everyday life in South Asia / edited by Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb.

Contributor(s): Mines, Diane P, 1960- | Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002Description: viii, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253215218 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253340802 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): South Asia -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306/.0954 LOC classification: DS339 | .E94 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-486) and index.
Contents:
One straw from a broom cannot sweep: the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Susan S. Wadley -- Allah gives both boys and girls / Patricia Jeffery 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 Grima -- Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb -- Memorializing the self: the autobiographical will and testament of Narayana Guruviah Chetty, Madras City, 1915 / Mattison Mines -- New light in the house: schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Family and gender systems in transition: a thirty-five-year perspective / Susan Seymour -- Offstage with special drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India: roadwork / Susan Seizer -- Nervous masculinity: consumption and the production of embodied gender in Indian wrestling / Joseph S. Alter -- Dosti and Tamanna: male-male love, difference, and normativity in Hindi cinema / Ruth Vanita -- Life on the margins: a Hijra's story / Serena Nanda -- God-chariots in a garden of castes: hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / Steven M. Parish -- High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, Josiane Racine Jean-Luc Racine -- The erasure of everyday life in colonial ethnography / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Anjali's prospects: class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey -- Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system -- The Hindu gods in a south Indian village / Diane P. Mines --
The feast of love / McKim Marriott -- The delusion of gender and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Kim Gutschow -- Presence: Yolmo spirit-callings in Nepal / Robert Desjarlais -- Tunes rising from the soul and other narcissistic prayers: contested realms in Bangladesh / Jim Wilce -- Political praise in Tamil newspapers: the poetry and iconography of Democratic power / J. Bernard Bate -- Outsiders at home: the south Asian diaspora in South Asia / Gautam Ghosh -- Why do Hindus and Muslims fight: children and history in India / Nita Kumar -- Walking through violence: "Everyday life" and anthropology / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Interviews with high school students in Eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick -- Cindy at the Taj: cultural enclosure and corporate potentateship in an era of globalization / William Mazzarella -- A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman -- British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall -- Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan -- Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS339 .E94 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903007322

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-486) and index.

One straw from a broom cannot sweep: the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Susan S. Wadley -- Allah 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 Grima -- Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb -- Memorializing the self: the autobiographical will and testament of Narayana Guruviah Chetty, Madras City, 1915 / Mattison Mines -- New light in the house: schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Family and gender systems in transition: a thirty-five-year perspective / Susan Seymour -- Offstage with special drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India: roadwork / Susan Seizer -- Nervous masculinity: consumption and the production of embodied gender in Indian wrestling / Joseph S. Alter -- Dosti and Tamanna: male-male love, difference, and normativity in Hindi cinema / Ruth Vanita -- Life on the margins: a Hijra's story / Serena Nanda -- God-chariots in a garden of castes: hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / Steven M. Parish -- High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine -- The erasure of everyday life in colonial ethnography / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Anjali's prospects: class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey -- Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system -- The Hindu gods in a south Indian village / Diane P. Mines --

The feast of love / McKim Marriott -- The delusion of gender and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Kim Gutschow -- Presence: Yolmo spirit-callings in Nepal / Robert Desjarlais -- Tunes rising from the soul and other narcissistic prayers: contested realms in Bangladesh / Jim Wilce -- Political praise in Tamil newspapers: the poetry and iconography of Democratic power / J. Bernard Bate -- Outsiders at home: the south Asian diaspora in South Asia / Gautam Ghosh -- Why do Hindus and Muslims fight: children and history in India / Nita Kumar -- Walking through violence: "Everyday life" and anthropology / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Interviews with high school students in Eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick -- Cindy at the Taj: cultural enclosure and corporate potentateship in an era of globalization / William Mazzarella -- A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman -- British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall -- Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan -- Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel.

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