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Khare, R. S.

Social Sciences

Vikas Publishing House

Cultural Diversity and Social Discontent: Anthropological Studies on Contemporary India

An AltaMira Press Book A critical anthropological study of contemporary India, this book explicates the cultural roles, presence and limitations of the ordinary, quotidian Indian. It also comments on the distinct challenges that tumultuous India poses to modern anthropology. In the first part, the author evaluates the relative strengths and weaknesses of recent anthropological approaches and concepts employed to study contemporary India. In the second part, he discusses major cultural, religious, and political conflicts by employing ethnographic field research help to elaborate the discourse. Firmly grounded in current social reality, this book does not treat the conceptual speculation as theory nor accord priority to any particular Indian or Western conceptual schemes. Rather, the author conceptualizes the issues by being in dialogue with living groups and communities, examining each in its contact and evaluating their import according to the issue at hand. Khare thus provides an eloquent portrait of contemporary India with its bright and dark spotsCdifferent in so many ways from 1947, and yet not quite so.

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Anthropology

The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible hermeneutics. The Eternal Food focuses on reflexive cultural expressions and personal experiences that food elicits in the region. Concerned with food as an “essence” and as an essential experience, the authors give special attention to Hindu saints for whom food, firmly grounded in moral ideals and practice, represents a cosmic divine principle at one level, and a most immediate and intimate material reality at another. In the cultural diversity of India, the authors work with several conceptual models and meanings of food. They demonstrate how it reflects common social understandings about social caste, the cure and prevention of ailments, its ability to alter moods and motivations, or affect innate personal dispositions, personal spiritual pursuits and attainments. In its sweep and depth, food presents a powerful cultural lens for seeing how practical, ritual, and spiritual spheres of life conjoin.

The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies)

State University of New York Press

Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, this volume is a study of leaders and leadership drawn from a broad spectrum of scholarship. Nineteen participants convened at the Birdwood Conference on Leadership in 1982, held by the Committee on the Comparative Study of Individual and Society. The presentations and discussions fell into three interrelated conceptual themes: leaders, heroes, and leadership.

Leadership

Little, David

Education & Teaching

University Press of America

Very clean and unmarked hardback with only shelf wear. Carolina Academic Pr (March 1986), ships from VA with delivery confirmation.

Food, Society, and Culture: Aspects in South Asian Food Systems

Carolina Academic Pr

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