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Historical anthropology/ edited by Saurabh Dube - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. - xiv, 435 p. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .

Introduction: Anthropology, History, Historical Anthropology / Saurabh Dube --
I. FORMATIONS --
1. Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism / Bernard Cohn --
2. Negation / Ranait Guha --
3. The Making of a Prophet / K.S. Singh --
4. Famine / Paul Greenough --
II. GENEALOGIES --
5. Genealogy and Lege / Ravindra Jain --
6. Reading Time / Ishita Banerjee-Dube --
7. Reconstructions of the Past / Susan Visvanathan --
8. A Contested Past / Saurabh Dube --
III. COMMUNITIES --
9. The Bigoted Julaha / Gyanendra Pandey --
10. Rebellion / Malavika Kasturi --
11. Wildness: Livelihood, Kinship, and Gender / Ajay Skaria --
12. Time, Self, and Community / Veena Das --
IV. CULTURE AND POWER --
13. Shoes / Ann G. Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar --
14. The Dialectics of Dussehra / Nandini Sundar --
15. Geographies of Empire / K. Sivaramakrishnan --
16. Gaze and Grasp / John D. Kelly --
V. EMPIRE AND NATION --
17. The Moral State / Peter van der Veer --
18. The Policing of Tradition / Nicholas Dirks --
19. Partition and Violence / Shail Mayaram --
20. Is Khadi the Solution? / Emma Tarlo.

ISBN: 0195699351

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnology
Civilization
Acculturation
Anthropology

Dewey Class. No.: 301 / DUB/H