| Anthropology and Sociology  Women, Aid and Development: Essays in Honour of Professor T. Scarlett Epstein by Christine M. Cottam and Sudha V. Rao
Price: Rs.300, US $Price not available Description: Pages-226, (Hard Bound), Year-1993, ISBN-81-7075-026-1, CONTENTS: Christine M. Cottam - Introduction. 1. Christine M. Cottam - Purdah Magnates: Hidden Traders in
Rajasthan. 2. Akbar S. Ahmed and Zeenat Ahmed - ‘Mor’ and ‘Tor’: Binary and Opposing Models of Pukhtoon Womanhood. 3. Naveed-I-Rahat - Male Outmigration and
Matri-Weighted Families: Mehrabad. 4. Annemarie Gerzer - Women in Search of a Dual Identity: Work and Family: A Case Study. 5. Katama G. C. Mkangi and Diane Ciekawy - Capitalism and the Disintegration of the Nuclear Family: The United States of America as a Case Study. 6. Joseph W. Ssennyonga - Pastoral Demography in the Context of Human Ecology: A Case Study of the Samburu of Kenya. 7. Sudha V. Rao - Poverty, Inequality and Formal Education in
Dalena. 8. Geoffrey Griffith - The Great Divide: An Ongoing Assessment to Bring Education to those Previously Denied. 9. Abhijit Dasgupta - Agricultural Loans and Changing Agrarian Relations in a West Bengal Village. 10. D. N. Nanjundappa - Rural-Urban Conundrum in Indian Planning. 11. George Rosen - Towards a Theory of the Behaviour of Private Non-Profit Foundations with Applications to their Overseas Activities. 12. George Dalton and Jasper Kocke - The Work of the Polanyi Group: Past, Present and Future. Glossary. Name Index. Subject Index. Anthropology and Sociology Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in A Tamil Community by Kamala Ganesh Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-182, (Hard Bound), Year-1993, ISBN-81-7075-023-7, This work is an extensive study of the social organisation and economic relations of a small, endogamous group of Tamil Vellalas known as Kottai
Pillaimar. . . Many of the questions raised here link up very well with recent work on caste and gender and engender a broader understanding of the role of women in Indian society. . . The study thus links a detailed empirical study of the broader conceptual issues of the nature and basis of caste, gender and status. One of its important contributions is that it shows that the jajmani system is not an institution of the past, but has still survived intact in this part of Tamil
Nadu. The author may have been extremely lucky to find an almost laboratory case of a closed-in caste group living in an anachronistic style. But here study and analysis highlight the fact that ethnographic studies are not necessarily
passe, but can be used imaginatively to understand the on-going processes of social change in different castes/regions. . .” This study is. . . an account of her [Kamala Ganesh’s] fieldwork among the inhabitants of a centuries old mud-walled fort in the centre of
Srivaikuntam, a small town in Tirunelveli Dsitrict in Tamilnadu. The inhabitants all belong to a small sub-caste of
Vellala, the major agricultural caste in this region, and are called Kottai Pilaimar
(KP), i.e. the Pillai living in a fort. The women of this sub-caste never come out of the gates of the fort, and this seclusion has been strictly adhered to for generations Historical appendices have been added to this serious study of the ideology of caste, which demarcates boundaries and defines identities through the conceptual linkages of caste and gender. -South Asia Anthropology and Sociology The Path of Grace: Social Organization and Temple Worship in A Vaishnava Sect by Peter Bennett Price: Rs.300, US $20 Description: Pages-230, (Hard Bound), Year-1993, ISBN-81-7075-024-5, CONTENTS: 1. Introduction The Study of Sects East and West; The Sect as
Sampradaya: An Ethnographic Approach. . . 2. Pushti Marg in Ujjain. Pushti Margis and their Temples. 3. The Vallabha Dynasty. Bhakti and the Adoration of the Guru; Vallabhacharya’s Throne; The Succession of Gurus; The Vishnuswami Connection; Maharajas, Gurus or Gods?; The Maharajas as Bestowers of Grace. 4. Devotion and the Devotee. Initiation. 5. The Pushti Margi Temples as the Abode of Krishna. . . The Establishment and Proliferation of Temples; The House of Nand Baba; The
Darshan; Approaching the Deity; The Divine Image. 6. The Temple
Calender. . . The Three Forms of Svarup-Seva. 7. The Food Offering. . . The Food Ingredients:
Samagri; The Preparation of Samagri; From Bhog to Prasad; Bhakti and the Pure-Impure Idiom. 8. The Pushti Margi Temple as a Redistributive
Centre. . . The Magnificent Seva; the Redistributive Process in Ujjain’s
Havelis; The Three Kings. 9. Motive and Misconduct. . . Businessmen and Devotee; The Misappropriation of
Samagri; Sevaks; True and False; Managers and Priests; Discussion; Postscript. 10. Conclusion: The Nourisher and the Nourished. Bibliography. Index. Anthropology and Sociology University Vice Chancellors: Profilesin Leadership by Uday Desai Price: Rs.150, US $10 Description: Pages-116, (Hard Bound), Year-1991, ISBN-81-7075-019-9, The book is the first and only empirical study of Vice-Chancellors of Indian University. . . ”Some of Uday Desai’s findings are startling, some others are not new to those familiar with the Indian educational scene. Still others are academic and are highly analytical The study by Prof. Uday Desai is unique in as much as it brings into focus several parameters which ought to form part of the personality and make-up of University Vice-Chancellor, as well as the glaring deficiencies from which the Vice-Chancellors in Indian Universities suffer. The Hindustan Times CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. Governance in University. Studying Vice Chancellors. The Study Sample and Data Collection. 2. Social Characteristics of Vice Chancellors. 3. Educational Background and Career Patterns. 4. Image of University Leadership. Models of Governance. Descriptive Images of Governance. Normative Images of Vice
Chancellorship. Qualities and Skills Needed. Difficulties, Weaknesses, Strengths, Aspirations, Views on University Education. Views on Religion. Conclusion. 5. Summary Profile. 6. Organization, Governance and Leadership in the University. References. Index. Anthropology and Sociology Culture and Community in Europe: Essays in Honor of Conrad M. Arensberg by Owen M. Lynch Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-226, (Hard Bound), Year-1987, It is a pleasure to find a reader about Europe still rooted in the discipline’s classical tradition of weaving together the intimate and the institutional, of showing how historical and regional processes permeate homely events. Following
Arensberg, the authors show how “community” is no false segregation of single locale or set of people, “urban” is not a synonym for dense population in a paved city, and “peasants” are something other than agricultural workers. Instead, these essays focus on emergent processes in the past and present - on continual movement within social fields. “Lynch’s introduction is particularly valuable, for he synthesizes the contributions of these articles to anthropology in general. . . Perhaps the most important contribution these articles make is to interdisciplinary studies, especially to the growing “rapproachement between history and anthropology (p.7), which Arensberg and others initiated some 25 years ago.” Anthropology and Sociology Man'S Glassy Essence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology by Milton Singer (Intorduced by M. N. Srinivas) Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-222, (Hard Bound), Year-1987, Anthropologist Milton Singer has devoted a substantial part of his career to the quest for a theory of symbolism comprehensive enough to embrace the varied concerns of his discipline. Man’s Glassy Essence is the culmination of the search: a major, path breaking book on the relationship of semiotics to anthropology.” Thomas A. Sebok Anthropology and Sociology The Social Framework of An Indian Factory by N. R. Sheth Price: Rs.225, US $15 Description: Pages-192, (Hard Bound), Year-1981, 2nd revised edition, In a foreword to the first edition of this book Max Gluckman praised it as “a fine contribution to understanding of development in new countries”. . . its reappearance now justified by its value both as a piece of industrial history and by the important general conclusion towards which it leads. Journal of Contemporary Asia “The book is of quite an academic value for anyone deeply interested in the social facet of the factories" -Economic Times Anthropology and Sociology The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in An Indian Village by Miriam Sharma Price: Rs.300, US $20 Description: Pages-262, (Hard Bound), Year-1979, A valuable basic text for interdisciplinary teams of researchers concerned with the politics of village societies. 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Walker Price: Rs.500, US $34 Description: Pages-298, (Hard Bound), Year-1994, ISBN-81-7075-027-X, The publication of New Place, Old ways Essays on Indian Society and Culture in Modern Singapore is indeed an achievement for ethnographic research in Singapore. Further its appearance with a press noted for its endorsement of outstanding research in South Asian societies heralds well. Undoubtedly, the book is ethnographically rich. The attention to ethnographic and fieldwork detail is impercable as one would expect from an anthropologist editor. The somewhat ‘dated’ nature of the research actually adds a certain ‘historical’, value to the book, in view of the rapidly changing scenario in Singapore. . . The collection is an excellent resource for students of Indian society and culture in Singapore and certainly its relevance is much greater, both theoretical and geographer. Interested scholars would not want to pass an opportunity to scrutinise a compilation that is clearly a contribution towards socio-cultural analyses of migrant Indian communities in modern, urban setting.” Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science CONTENTS: Indians in Singapore: The Background by Anthony R. Walker. 2. Mother-Goddess Worship: Practice and Practitioners in Three Hindu Temples by Nilavu Mohammed Ali. 3. Continuity and Change among Singapore’s Bihari Dairymen: The Kampung Sungei Seletar Community by Yeo Chor Siang. 4. An Indian Family Business: Traditional Strategies for Commercial Success by Saroja Devi Dorairajoo. 5. Catholic Vellalar: Preserving a Special Identity by Jacintha Stephens. Index. Anthropology and Sociology Rivalry and Tribute: Society and Ritual in A Telugu Village in South India by Bruce Elliot Tapper Price: Rs.300, US $20 Description: Pages-310, (Hard Bound), Year-1986, This valuable study is the result of twenty-three months of intensive research conducted in the Aripaka village near Vishakhapatnam, South India. The author records with remarkable clarity and copious detail several aspects of religious and social life a rich mine of information with insights and hopeful methodologies. Religious Studies Review “If there is one region of India that is underrepresented in the ethnographic literature it must surely be Andhra Pradesh. Bruce Tapper’s new study of a multicaste village near the coast of Andhra is therefore very welcome. . . The ethnographic detail is dense and valuable. The main theme of the book is hierarchy and how rituals are used to exemplify it, justify it, manipulate it, for it does appear to be an idiom to be negotiated. Anthropology and Sociology The Toda of South India: A New Look by Anthony R. Walker Price: Rs.550, US $37 Description: Pages-372, (Hard Bound), Year-1986, W’s [Walker’s] book must indeed be greeted as a magnum opus. It is so both in what it tells us about the Todas and the great and even calamitous changes that the last fifty years have brought about in culture and, more importantly, as a first-rate addition to the comparatively short shelf of good ethnographic works on South Asia. Finally, I should mention the excellence and attractiveness of the plates which decorate the work.” M. B. Emeneu, in J. American Society“. The most important book to have appeared on any South Asian tribe in the past decade, and will long be in use.” Anthropology and Sociology Information Seeking Behaviour of Social Scientists: An Indian Conspectus by A. R. Sethi Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-238, (Hard Bound), Year-1990, CONTENTS: Prologue. 1. Social Science Research in India. 2. Social Science Dissemination in India. 3. Information Seeking Behaviour of Social Scientists in India-I (as a Group). 4. Information seeking Behaviour of Social Scientists of India-II (Discipline-wise). 5. Information Seeking Behaviour of Women Social Scientists. 6. Inferences and Implications. Epilogue, References, Index. Anthropology and Sociology The Thakors of North Gujarat: A Caste in the Village and the Region by Lancy Lobo Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-206, (Hard Bound), Year-1995, ISBN-81-7075-035-0. Some books in the field of social anthropology/sociology gain great fame as enthnographies. Ideal examples of such works include: ‘The Nuer’ by E. E. Evans-Pritchard and ‘The Andaman Islanders’ by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. They remain as landmarks to guide researchers in the methods and techniques of fieldwork. The book. , ‘The Thakors of North Gujarat’, falls in this category. It is an excellent piece of work, profusely interspersed with 10 maps, 37 tables and 5 charts. . . The Thakors of North Gujarat are one of the largest OBC categories and are linked to the Kolis. . . the book is lucidly written and excellently argued. There is a wealth of detail and there are a lot of things to be learnt regarding data collection and analysis. This forms a major contribution not only to studies related to caste but also of other communities whose micro-level individual variations have to be linked with macro-level regional tendencies. A book well-worth keeping in one’s private collection and a must for research libraries. Man in India CONTENTS: 1. Introduction - The Scope. Ecological Profile of North Gujarat. Caste Composition of Mehesana. PART-1: THAKORS IN THE VILLAGE. 2. Dhoria Village and its People. Topography. Public Utilities. Caste Compositional and Hierarchy. The Village as a Social Entity. Ritual Unity of the Village. Kinship. 3. The Thakore Household, Family and Lineage. Households: Simple and Complex. The Household Development Process. The Concept of Family. Fraternal Joint Family. Internal Segmentation of the Lineage (Interaction between Minor Segments; Relation between Two Major Segments; Factions, Leaders and ‘Big Men’ Syndrome). 4. Thakors in Dhoria Economy. Land History. The Annual Agricultural Cycle. Division of Labour in Cultivation. The Place of Thakors in the Social Organisation of Agricultural Skills and Caste. Supplementary Sources of Income. Economic Differentials. 5. Thakors in Dhoria Politics. Sequence of Violent Interactions. Nature of Crime in Dhoria. Prejudice between Patels and Thakors. Politics in the Village Panchayat. Village Politics and Village Institutions. Dominant Caste. PART-II: THAKORS IN THE REGION. 6. A Profile of North Gujarat Thakors. Historical Profile. ‘Criminal’ Background of Thakors. The Economic Profile. 7. Thakor Kinship and Marriage in North Gujarat. The Clan among Thakors. Marriage Circles among Thakors. Social Stratification. 8. Mobility among North Gujarat Thakors. Low Degree of Sanskritisation. Sanskritisation Process. Hypergamy and the Inclusion-Exclusion Process. Census Operations and Caste Claims. Mobility attempts around Independence. Caste Associations. Thakor Leadership in Mehesana District. Electoral Behaviour. 9. Mobility among the Kolis of Gujarat. Mobility prior to Independence: Sanskritisation. Census Operations and Status Claims. Endogamous Units among the Kolis. Koli-Rajput Continuum. The Kolis as OBCs. The Caste and Politics. 10. Conspectus. Dhoria Thakors. Region, Caste, and Politics. Large Koli-like Castes in India. Appendices-I and II. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. | 
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