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ISBN-13: 9781793611789
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By Robert Parkin
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Local release date: 14/08/2020
Format: Hardback 322 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Sociology [JHB]

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Google Preview: South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region of the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first set of chapters deal mostly with India, being successively on caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. The second set of chapters deal successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.; Introduction: Anthropology and South Asia, Anthropology of South Asia Caste: The South Asian Social Group Caste and Class in Modern South Asia The Tribe in South Asia: Like Caste or Unlike? Religions in South Asia: Of Indian Soil and Imported Kinship and Marriage in India: Traditional Practices and Modern Changes Gender, the Body and Personhood: Patriarchy and Resistance Politics in Modern India: Policy versus Faction Political Economy of Modern India: From Formality to Precarity Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Asian Islam Sri Lanka: Buddhist Nationalism and Tamil Separatism Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to Republic Bibliography Index About the Author; Google Preview content