Histories of Intimacy and Situated Ethnography - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8173048738 ISBN 13: 9788173048739

Publisher: Manohar Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Celebrating the world of Sylvia Vatuk, this volume highlights the intimate relationship between anthropology and history. The nine essays in this volume are authored by a range of scholars—anthropologists, historians, and folklorists—who have been inspired and influenced by Sylvia Vatuk’s extensive corpus of work on these disciplinary intersections as explored through her research on kinship and family history, gender, aging and the life cycle, and politics and the law. The essays critically examine and extend Vatuk’s contributions to such intersections of historical and ethnographic work, exploring anew the ways in which constructions of culture are inextricably tied to specific historical and political contexts. The essays also stress the implications of such situated knowledge for contemporary understandings of history, culture, and politics in present-day India. Apart from the editors the other contributors to this important volume are Helene Basu, Srimati Basu, Tarini Bedi, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Pauline Kolenda, Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Helen E. Ulrich, and Pnina Werbner.

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About the Author

Karen Isaksen Leonard is a professor of anthropology at the University of California–Irvine. She has published on the history and culture of Hyderabad State, South Asian immigrants in the U.S. (including Punjabi Mexicans), Muslim Americans, and the diaspora from Hyderabad, India, to Pakistan, the U.K., Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the Gulf States of Kuwait and the U.A.E. Gayatri Reddy is an associate professor of gender and women’s studies and anthropology at the University of Illinois–Chicago. Her publications draw on her ethnographic research among hijras in India and include her recent book With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India. Ann Grodzine Gold is a professor of religion and anthropology at Syracuse University. Her recent publications include In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power and Memory in Rajasthan (coauthored with Bhoju Ram Gujar), which in 2004 was awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, and a coedited volume, Women’s Renunciation in South Asia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8173048738
• ISBN 13: 9788173048739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Leonard Karen Isaksen, Reddy Gayatri, Gold Ann Grodzins