Critical themes in Indian sociology / edited by Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmeen Arif, Janaki Abraham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Srivastava, Sanjay, 1960- editor.

Arif, Yasmeen, 1966- editor.

Abraham, Janaki, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--India.

Sociology.

India.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 467 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2019.

Contents:

1 The State as an Ethnographic Object p. 1 / Thomas Blom Hansen

2 The Folk and the Making of an Indian Aesthetic p. 19 / Roma Chatterji

3 Religious Violence: A Sociological Perspective p. 31 / Ronie Parciack

4 Contemporary Religiosities p. 44 / Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

5 Artful Living: New Religious Movements in and of South Asia p. 62 / Tulasi Srinivas

6 Villages and Villagers in Contemporary India p. 77 / Surinder S. Jodhka

7 Fields, Markets and Agricultural Commodities p. 93 / Mekhala Krishnamurthy

8 The Nation, De-duplicated p. 107 / Lawrence Cohen

9 Internet Cultures p. 127 / Nicholas Nisbett and Aditi Bhonagiri

10 Schooling and Culture: Bringing Schools into Sociology p. 138 / Meenakshi Thapan

11 Cultures of Work in India's 'New Economy' p. 151 / Carol Upadhya

12 The Sociology of Labour in India p. 164 / Geert De Neve

13 Hierarchy Without System? Why Civility Matters in the Study of Caste p. 182 / Suryakant Waghmore

14 Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy p. 195 / Lucia Michelutti

15 'The Middle Class' and the Middle Classes p. 209 / Raka Ray

16 Tribe, Egalitarian Values, Autonomy and the State p. 225 / Alpa Shah

17 Gendering Sociology, a Sociology of Gender or Studying Women?: Some Reflections p. 240 / Rajni Palriwala

18 Contemporary Intimacies p. 257 / Perveez Mody

19 Conjugality and Marital Dissolution in Historical Perspective p. 267 / Shalini Grover

20 Gender and Law p. 282 / Srimati Basu

21 Masculinities and Culture p. 298 / Joseph S. Alter

22 The Sociology of Disability: Conceptual Ethnography of an Analytical Category in India p. 313 / Renu Addlakha

23 Alternating Sexualities: Sociology and Queer Critiques in India p. 330 / Paul Boyce and Rohit K. Dasgupta

24 Ageing, Ambivalent Modernities and the Pursuit of Value in India p. 346 / Sarah Lamb

25 New Cultures of Food Studies p. 361 / Amita Baviskar

26 Cinematic Cultures p. 375 / Sara Dickey

27 The Sociology of Consumption in India: Towards a New Agenda p. 390 / Margit van Wessel

28 The Challenge of Urban Space p. 402 / Smriti Srinivas

29 Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Horizon: The Anthropology of Environment and Climate Change p. 419 / Rita Brara

30 Beyond Medical Pluralism: Medicine, Power and Social Legitimacy in India p. 433 / V. Sujatha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789352807956

9352807952

OCLC:

1057737804