A.M. Shah
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Conceived as a series of dialogues between Shah and his fellow social scientists, and indeed between the two disciplines of Sociology and History, essays in this collection nuance ethnographic fact with a historical dimension in ways that were path-breaking for their time. The book includes Shah´s well-known study of the Vahivancha Barots traditional record-keepers of genealogies and narrators and creators of myths. Shah offers several essays on theory and ...
This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences of field research mainly in rural and urban India, and in complex organizations such as a hospital, a factory and a trade union. There are also accounts of work in Japan, Sri Lanka and New Mexico. This is an ...
This book explores India’s rural past through an intensive analysis of the vernacular records of Radhvanaj village in central Gujarat, dating back to the early nineteenth century. Though the principal focus of the study is land, caste and occupation, it also dwells on other important aspects –the village as a community; the caste system, with particular attention to the service castes; household, family and marriage the lineage structure; and the village as a ...
Since its first publication, this book has been recommended reading for research methodology in the social sciences. This revised edition, which fulfils an enduring demand, contains a new preface that reviews the field since the publication of the first edition, answers critics, and emphasises the practical utility of field experience in the training of social scientists. Once considered to be the hallmark of social and cultural anthropology, intensive fieldwork ...
Fungi of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh contains records of fungi from geographically interesting area of the world, representing sub-tropical, temperate and cold desert climate. The records of fungi from Jammu & Kashmir were scattered in numerous research articles, journals and other reference material including fungi of India and now have been brought under one cover. This authentic and up-to-date list of fungi from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh would prove useful ...
"This book--the second in the series of five volumes in honour of eminent sociologist and social anthropologist, M.N. Srinivas--focuses on the changing status of women in Indian society. The distinguished contributors cover a wide range of issues concerning women. These include the gender bias in development policies; women's participation in production processes in rural as well as urban settings; socio-cultural dimensions of women's education during the ...
The Grassroots of Democracy Conceived by India?s most influential modern anthropologist M.N. Srinivas and his eminent colleague A.M. Shah, who has also edited it, this book contains essays based on field studies of two national elections in India?s rural, tribal, and urban communities within ten Indian states. The studies were conducted by sixteen sociologists at the Delhi School of Economics under the direction of Srinivas and Shah. Demonstrating the ...