Structure & Cognition

Politics & Social Sciences

Das,Veena

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Structure and cognition: Aspects of Hindu caste and ritual

Religion & Spirituality

Structure and Cognition : Aspects of Hindu Caste a

The winner of the prestigious G.S. Ghurye Award for Indian sociology, this analysis of Hindu caste and ritual departs from conventional empirical studies of local communities by drawing on selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, particularly the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra.

Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (Oxford India Paperbacks)

This book identifies certain moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various sociological issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their implications within the framework of anthropological knowledge. She shows the various social transformations that have resulted in new configurations of relations between the local and the global within India. This work will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and political scientists.

Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India

This book identifies critical moments in contemporary Indian history, such as the Partition of India, the Bhopal industrial disaster, and recent widow deaths. It describes the implications of these events for India and analyzes, through them, the nature of Indian modernity.

Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India (Oxford India Paperbacks)

History

Asia

The form and reach of the modern state is changing radically under the pressure of globalization featuring ten leading scholars in the field, this volume assesses perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: south asia, africa, and latin america rather than a geographic border, the term margin here describes areas far from the centres of state sovereignty where states are unable to ensure implementation of their programmes and policies the book tries to understand how people perceive and experience the agency of the state who is of, and not of, the state and how practices at the margins shape the state itself this emphasis on the margins of the state that are not peripheral but, in fact, hightly crucial to its everyday functioning is the most innovative aspect of this volume instead of looking at the state as a distinct and distant entity, the essays highlight the ubiquitous transgressions of formal models that take place almost daily in any state organization the essays are based on fieldwork in india, sri lanka, sierra leone, peru, guatemala, chad, colombia, and south africa the contributors examine official documentary practices and their forms and falsifications the problems that highly mobile mercenaries, currency, goods, arms, and diamonds post to the state emerging non-state regulatory authorities and the role language plays as cultures struggle to articulate their situation

Oup India Anthropology In The Margins Of The State

OUP India

Sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this classic work, the author adds a new dimension to such analysis by basing her data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra, going thereby to the sources of the ideology that have given local communities their particular shape and character. The book places the discussion in the wider setting of discussions on Hinduism. This original approach, bridging the gulf that divides Indology from Sociology, resolves many questions that had previously defied definitive explanation, and charts a fruitful alternative direction for future sociological inquiry. The Third Edition comes includes a new Preface by the author.

Structure and Cognition, Third Edition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (Oxford India Perennials Series)

CRITICAL EVENTS (OIP) 2ND EDN. [Paperback] Das, Veena

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"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture―the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people―and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation allows us to see the twentieth century in a new frame, with new emphases. Anthropologists, historians, literary theorists, social medicine experts, and scholars engaged in the study of religion join together to investigate the cultural representations, collective experiences, and professional and popular appropriations of human suffering in the world today. These authors contest traditional research and policy approaches. Recognizing that neither the cultural resources of tradition nor those of modernity's various programs seem adequate to cope with social suffering in our times, they base their distinctive vision on the understanding that moral, political, and medical issues cannot be kept separate.

Social Suffering

Lock, Margaret M.

Kleinman, Arthur

Anthropology

University of California Press

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