Clark-Dec?s, Isabelle
A Companion to the Anthropology of India
A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twenty-first century.
- Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of India
- Explores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issues
- Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law
- Represents an authoritative guide for professional social and cultural anthropologists, and South Asian specialists, and an accessible reference work for students engaged in the analysis of India’s modern transformation
Nyckelord: Indian, culture, ethnography, anthropology, Southeast Asia, caste, Hindu, Islam, globalization, sociology
- Författare
- Clark-Dec?s, Isabelle
- Utgivare
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 576 sidor
- Kategori
- Geografi, Resehandböcker
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444390582
- Tryckt ISBN
- 9781405198929