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This volume of seven essays on themes of family and gender in Indian popular culture seeks to commend popular culture as an important resource for sociological insights into contemporary social issues and processes. Drawing its material from three popular media —‘calendar art’ (popular chromolithography), commercial ‘Bollywood’ cinema, and magazine romance fiction—the essays bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on the representation of the ...
Family, Kinship and Marriage in India attempts to capture the great variety of family types and kinship practices found in the South Asia region. Several theoretical formulations which posit an underlying unity in this variety, and some sophisticated new analyses of family and kinship are presented in an accessible form. Offering the best recent work as well as some celebrated classic writings, the readings also try to integrate a concern for gender issues into ...
Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is neither much available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines, nor on the practices of pioneering anthropologists and sociologists. The present book fills an important gap. While the sociology of India is not purely national phenomenon (scholars and centers studying Indian exist outside) and while western theories have been ...
Marriage, Migration and Gender brings a gender-sensitive and comparative perspective to bear on Asian peoples' migration experiences, both within and across national borders. It seeks to examine how the institution of marriage may affect or enable women's and men's migration, as well as the impact of migration, state laws and immigration procedures on the marriage, family and kinship networks of Asian migrants. Migration and marriage strategies are discussed ...
While the rise of China has long been an accepted fact of international economic and political relations, the recent rise of India as an economic power has provoked intense global interest in the question of what the emergence of the two together portends for the rest of the world. to the other, focusing on their shared and divergent experiences of modernization and economic reform and the ramifications thereof in respect of each country’s role ...