Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Susan Bayly is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She was also the editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2000-2004). Her most recent publications include Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age. Vietnam, India and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 'Anthropology and History'. In Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. Matei Candea, ed. (London: Routledge, 2018).

“This book which addresses such key themes as modernity, morality and collective identity in both Vietnam and India will be of immense significance for scholars and students seeking to engage in comparative work on Asia…[It]opens up new fields of research and analysis for interdisciplinary scholarship on Asia.” • Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Historicity, Power Relations, and Visuality as Perspectives on Asian ContextsChapter 1. Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic ModeChapter 2. Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist PerspectivesChapter 3. At Home in the World of Work: Women, Work and Care in Late-Socialist VietnamChapter 4. Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the Moral Citizen in Late-Socialist VietnamChapter 5. How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today’s VietnamChapter 6. Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist EcumeneChapter 7. Reflections on Caste in South AsiaChapter 8. Listening to Asian Voices in the Postcolonial AgeConclusion: Morality, Achievement, Modernity, ComparisonIndex