A Companion to the Anthropology of India
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by Isabelle Clark-Decès (Editor)
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