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  • av C. J. Fuller
    1 833,-

    This book documents the two sides of Risley¿s career, which is used as a case-study to investigate the production and circulation of colonial knowledge and its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking.

  • - The Making of a Middle Class Caste
    av C. J. Fuller & Haripriya Narasimhan
    404 - 1 112,-

    A cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the author examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development.

  • - Modernity and Traditionalism in a South Indian Temple
    av C. J. Fuller
    482,-

    Shows that traditionalism and modernity reinforce each other among the priests at the Minakshi Temple. This book also shows that the priests have become more 'professional' and modern-minded while also insisting on the legitimacy of tradition. It concludes by critiquing the analysis of modernity and tradition in social science.

  • av C. J. Fuller
    470,-

    This 1976 study examines the Nayars of Kerala who are famous in anthropological circles because, unusually, they trace descent through the female line and, in the past, had a marriage system in which women were allowed several husbands simultaneously. Dr Fuller situates his analysis in its historical context throughout.

  • - Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition
    av C. J. Fuller
    573,-

    Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings - a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. This title combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well.

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