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Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Av Guntra A. Aistara, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2018
1862 kr
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This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically …
Kuhls of Kangra
Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
Av J. Mark Baker, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2007
533 kr
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In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems - intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels - for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed …
Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Av Heidi Pauwels, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
565 kr
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Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was on …
Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Av David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1862 kr
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This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town …
Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Av David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
533 kr
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This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town …
Making New Nepal
From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics
Av Amanda Thérèse Snellinger, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
549 kr
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One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal’s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based on extensive ethnographic research between 2003 and 2015, Making New Nepal provides a snapshot of …
Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Av Guntra A. Aistara, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2018
533 kr
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This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically …
High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Av Amy Bhatt, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
549 kr
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Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational …
Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Av Sonja Thomas, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2018
1862 kr
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Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores …
Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Av Sonja Thomas, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
533 kr
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Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores …
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
Av Dolly Kikon, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, …
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Av Karine Gagné, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
533 kr
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Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of …
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Av Karine Gagné, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1862 kr
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Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of …
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Av Jason Cons, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic …
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
Av Nachiket Chanchani, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1316 kr
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From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of …
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Av Nico Slate, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
565 kr
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Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, …
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
Av Dolly Kikon, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1918 kr
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, …
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850
Av Sugata Ray, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. …
Marrying for a Future
Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
Av Sidharthan Maunaguru, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has …
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Av Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify …
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Av Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1918 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify …
Roses from Kenya
Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers
Av Megan A. Styles, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, …
Roses from Kenya
Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers
Av Megan A. Styles, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1918 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, …
Snow Leopard and the Goat
Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas
Av Shafqat Hussain, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
549 kr
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Who should bear the cost of protecting charismatic wildlife?Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most …
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands
Av Jonathan Padwe, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2020
1918 kr
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In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, only to find …
Making Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
Av Pika Ghosh, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1316 kr
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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home …
Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Av Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2020
1862 kr
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Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the …
Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Av Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
533 kr
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Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the …
Shifting Livelihoods
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Av Daniel Tubb, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
549 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or …
Gardens of Gold
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea
Av Jamon Alex Halvaksz, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
533 kr
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“This is a soya bean,” the Biangai villager explained, “a money bean.”Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other …