Voices from the Periphery

Marine Carrin

ISBN 10: 0415501776 / ISBN 13: 9780415501774

Published by Routledge India Mär 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns. This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions of the Brahmanical, folk and tribal elements, the articles bring together the empowering possibilities enabled by three recent theoretical developments: of anthropologies questioning the fringes of mainstream society in India; critically engaged histories from below, which problematize subaltern identities; and a conceptual emphasis on everyday ethnography as an arena for negotiations and transactions which contest wider networks of power and hegemony.This book will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, politics, history, study of religions, minority studies, cultural studies and those interested in social development, and issues of marginality, tribes and subaltern identity. 328 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices from the Periphery
• Publisher: Routledge India Mär 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415501776
• ISBN 13: 9780415501774
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 21D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 545 grams

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Synopsis

In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns.

This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions of the Brahmanical, folk and tribal elements, the articles bring together the empowering possibilities enabled by three recent theoretical developments: of anthropologies questioning the fringes of mainstream society in India; critically engaged histories from below, which problematize subaltern identities; and a conceptual emphasis on everyday ethnography as an arena for negotiations and transactions which contest wider networks of power and hegemony.

This book will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, politics, history, study of religions, minority studies, cultural studies and those interested in social development, and issues of marginality, tribes and subaltern identity.

About the Author

Marine Carrin is Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LISST-Centre d’Anthropologie, Toulouse, France.

Lidia Guzy is Associate Researcher, Institute for Scientific Studies of Religions, Free University of Berlin.