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Migration has emerged as one of the key issues of the 21 century. While human movement has become a major political issue and research projects devoted to its study have proliferated, within contemporary social anthropology and sociology there remains a resounding silence on the effects migration has on local areas or individual lives within South Asia. In particular, what migration means in terms of cultural or social change in specific places has been little ...
What it means to be a man-in word, flesh, deed and affect-in the various arenas of social life in South Asian societies is the thread that runs through the essays in this volume, the first of its kind on masculinity. These essays deal with different planes of experience, and various modes of expression: popular films, national history, ethnography and literature are examined within a range of methdological and theoretical orientations. Regional differences as ...