<p>Anthropologist are in a funk these days: other fields, such as history and literary studies, are having a heyday with concepts anthropologists developed but have since discredited, and postmodernists just jeer at what they actually do believe in. Ten essays suggest remedies such as throwing everything out and starting over, limiting their study to the American middle-class, and undertaking an "archaeology" (or perhaps psychoanalysis) of the discipline. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lila Abu-Lughod

Paul Rabinow

Sherry B. Ortner

GRAHAM WATSON

Richard G. Fox

Arjun Appadurai

Jose F. Limon

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Joan Vincent

Anthropology

SAR Press

GuroÌ„barizeÌ„shon to boÌ„ryoku : MainoritiÌ„ no kyoÌ„fu

TatsuroÌ„ Fujikura

KyoÌ„to : SekaishisoÌ„sha, 2010

<p>India in the twenty-first century is perhaps more than at any other time in its history a place of contradictions. On the one hand, it is perceived as a rising superpower, on the other, it is classified as a third-world country. Indian writing in English is flourishing, but classical languages, such as Sanskrit, seem to find no takers anymore. While every Indian citizen has the right to vote during election time, Dalits have to often struggle for their rights and dignity, more than sixty years after untouchability was abolished. These issues and counter-issues, and more, are discussed in this anthology by some of the most informed and insightful commentators on India: Ajit Balakrishnan, Sheldon Pollock, Gopal Guru, Ranjani Mazumdar, and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, among others. Taken together, the essays in this volume illustrate why the country s achievements should be seen only in the context of its problems, in order to get a complete picture of contemporary India.</p>

India's World

Literature & Fiction

Rupa Publications India

Fear Of Small Numbers

Seagull

El futuro como hecho cultural. Ensayos sobre la condición global (Spanish Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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