Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mines, Diane P., 1960-
• Lamb, Sarah, 1960-

Description

viii, 566 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

Social theorists focus on the everyday lives and experiences of people living in South Asia in this book composed of papers that clearly convey important facets of the history, diversity, and richness of the region's social-cultural life, as well as speak to theoretical questions and concerns viewed as vital by a range of contemporary scholars. This edition contains many updated versions of those from the original book, as well as new papers from scholars whose work focuses on the kinds of critical contemporary issues that have impacted the region and grabbed the media over recent years: young, middle-class workers in call centers, the impact on local gender systems of the massive out-migration of Sri Lankan housemaids to oil-producing Middle East, the force and flavor of new Hindu nationalisms, contemporary terrain of homosexualities and local "global gay" movements, "brain-drain in reverse" of professionals to India, and the emergence of new middle-class lifeways amidst far reaching processes of cultural economic liberalization and globalization.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Manners and customs
• Soziale Situation
• Alltag
• South Asia > Social life and customs
• South Asia
• Südasien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-543) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 and Roger Jeffery -- "Out here in Kathmandu" : youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal / Mark Liechty -- Rethinking courtship, marriage, and divorce in an Indian call center / Cari Costanzo Kapur -- Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb -- New light in the house : schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Roadwork : offstage with Special Drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India / Susan Seizer -- Breadwinners no more : identities in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Life on the margins : a hijra's story / Serena Nanda -- Crossing "lines" of difference : transnational movements and sexual subjectivities in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy -- Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system --^ 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 -- Weakness, worry illness, and poverty in the slums of Dhaka / Sabina Faiz Rashid -- Anjali's alliance : class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey -- Recasting the secular : religion and education in Kerala, India / Ritty Lukose -- 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 -- Muslim village intellectuals : the life of the mind in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- In friendship : a father, a daughter, and a jinn / Naveeda Khan -- Vernacular Islam at a healing crossroads in Hyderabad / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Voices from the partition / Urvashi Butalia -- A day in the life / Laura Ring --^ Living and dying for Mother India : Hindu nationalist female renouncers and sacred duty / Kalyani Devaki Menon -- Political praise in Tamil newspapers : the poetry and iconography of democratic power / Bernard Bate -- Mala's dream : economic policies, national debates, and Sri Lankan garment workers / Caitrin Lynch -- Interviews with high school students in eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick -- Cinema in the countryside : popular Tamil film and the remaking of rural life / Anand Pandian -- Dangerous desires : erotics, public culture, and identity in late-twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar -- A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman -- British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall -- Examining the "global" Indian middle class : gender and culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit / Smitha Radhakrishnan -- Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan -- Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel.

ISBN

• 9780253354730 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0253354730 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780253221940 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0253221943 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009054114

OCLC

• 432994655
• SCSB-12129000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library