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Price: Rs.250, US $Price not available Description: 3rd Edition Anthropology and Sociology Canadian Society and Culture by Bhagat Singh Price: Rs.495, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Economic Transition in Tripura P R Bhattacharjee Price: Rs.195, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Indian Womanhood: Warped in Contradictions by S Char Price: Rs.275, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Food Crisis In Africa: Policy & Management Issues by E Chole Price: Rs.250, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Women & Indian Nationalism by Kasturi, L & V Mazumdar Price: Rs.295, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Tribal Development in India: Myth and Reality by L K Mahapatra Price: Rs.150, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Resettlement, Impoverishment and Reconstruction in India by L K Mahapatra Price: Rs.295, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology The Family Welfare Programme in India by Hari Mohan Mathur Price: Rs.350, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Sexual Behavior and AIDS in India by Moni Nag Price: Rs.250, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes In Indian Training Institutes by K K Prem Price: Rs.110, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology The Poor in a Hostile Society by M V Rao Price: Rs.350, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Women in Asia : Work, Culture and Politics in South and Central Asia by Ranabir Samaddar Price: Rs.295, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Women Entrepreneurship by K Sasikumar Price: Rs.250, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology The Scandal and the Shame: Below Poverty and Development by Bertrand Schneider Price: Rs.250, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in North Eastern India by Phanjoubam Tarapot Price: Rs.350, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Scheduled Tribes in Rajasthan Below Poverty Line by Bhupinder Singh Price: Rs.150, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Ideology, Caste, Class and Gender by Selvy Thiruchandran Price: Rs.450, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology The Spectrum of Feminity : A Process of Deconstruction by Selvy Thiruchandran Price: Rs.295, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Sustainable Development and Social Security : Role of the Non-Farm sector by Jeemol Unni Price: Rs.495, US $Price not available Description: Description not available Anthropology and Sociology Readings on Pro-poor Planning through Social Mobilisation in South Asia by Wignaraja, Poona & Sirivardana Sushil Price: Rs.550, US $Price not available Description: Vol. I, The Strategic Option for Poverty Eradication Anthropology and Sociology Manav Shastriya Vichardhara: Ek Parichay by Makhan Jha Price: Rs.85, US $Price not available Description: Textbooks In Hindi Anthropology and Sociology Male Outmigration and Matri-Weighted Households: A Case Study of Pubjabi Village in Pakistan by Naveed-I-Rahat Price: Rs.200, US $14 Description: Pages-124, (Hard Bound), Year-1991, ISBN-81-7075-015-6, An excellent piece of anthropological research, has implications which extend far beyond Punjabi village to many parts of rural societies where the women are left to look after the land while the men who earn the money only return for formal occasions.” Asian Affairs CONTENTS: Foreword by T. Scarlett Epstein. Introduction. The Problem. The Settings. Theoretical Framework. Methods of the Field. Male Outmigration and Agriculture: Settlement History. Economic Diversification. Characteristics of Migrants: Past and Present. Social Setting of Agriculture. Male Outmigration and Changes in Agricultural Practices.
Matri-Weighted Households. What are Matri-Weighted Households? Changing Village Scene. Changing Social Structure. Women as Households Heads. Female Social Networks.
Matri-Weighted Households within a Patri-Kinship Structure. From Extra-Village Purdah to Intra-Village
Purdah. Different Meanings of Purdah, Izzat and Sharam. Extra-village
Purdah. Intra-village Purdah. Conclusions. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Anthropology and Sociology Education, Social Inequality and Social Change in Karnataka by Chitra Sivakumar Price: Rs.200, US $14 Description: Pages-146, (Hard Bound), Year-1982, She went to Mysore and spent over a year with her sample with the aim of combining ethnographic insights with survey data. These insights make her study different from run-of-the mill studies of the sociology of education in India, and especially different from doctoral sociology to which this work also belongs.Economic & Political Weekly. Anthropology and Sociology Perceptions and Interactions in A Medical Setting: the Medical Ward in A Women's Hospital by Aneeta Minocha Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-154, (Hard Bound), Year-1996, ISBN-81-7075-043-1. In any society behaviour related to illness is an outcome of the ongoing process of construction of medical reality by the individuals concerned. Taking this as a cue, this study focuses on the process of construction of the medical reality by women patients in the course of their living together in the medical ward of an Indian hospital. More particularly, it examines the role of what Schultz would call the patients’ biographically determined situations and stocks of knowledge. The work is an outcome of author’s fieldwork in a women’s hospital for one and a half years. Three hundred in-patients were covered for data collection through unstructured interviews, group discussions and participant as well as non-participant observation.The choice of women’s hospital was mainly influenced by the reason that its ‘all women’ character provided a good opportunity to study the impact of modern medicine on Indian society as well as to observe women in crisis situations. The author is Prof. and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction - (Objectives of Study; Organization of chapter; Fieldwork and Data Collection). 2. The Institutional Complex (Training in Modern Medicine in India; Medical Education for Women; Establishment of LHMCH Complex; The Physical Layout; Organisation of Medical Services; Organisation of Nursing Services). 3. The Medical Ward (The Process of becoming an In-patient; The Social Organization of the Ward; The Daily Routine in the Ward. 4. The Patients in the Ward: A Social Profile (Social Background of the Patients; Assuming the Patient’s Role; Interaction among Patients; Hospital versus Home; Conceptualization of the Hospital; Response to Hospitalization). 5. Patients, Doctors and the Nurses (Patients’ Perception of the Doctors; Patients’ Perception of the Nurses; Patients’ Perception of Modern Medicine; Attitudes to Surgery; Patient Doctor Communication; Attitudes to getting Discharged; Home Visits during Hospitalization; Patients’ Interaction with Nurses; The Public Image of the Nursing Profession; Patients’ Interaction with the Other Staff. 6. Conclusion (Construction of the Medical Reality in the Ward; The Social Contexts of Medical Relationships; The Family and the Hospital; The Modernizing Role of Hospital). References. Index. Anthropology and Sociology Peasants and Nabobs: Agrarian Radicalism in Late Eighteenth Century Tamil Country by Chitra Sivikumar and S. S. Sivakumar Price: Rs.200, US $14 Description: Pages-112, (Hard Bound), Year-1993, ISBN-81-7075-031-8, An interesting aspect of this study is the focus on the indigenous socio-economic institutions which evolved over centuries. . . Some sociological concepts like jati and kulam are analysed at length. The
jati-kinship nexus played an important role in the management and regulation of local institutions like tanks and temples, in addition to the landed estates. . . the book is well documented with a rich flavour of local terms, and is a new path of research in the socio-economic history of southern India.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. 2. The Backdrop. . . Introduction; Irrigation Management and Paddy Technology; Resource Control and Economic Stratification; Some General Features of the Economy; Jati and Resource Control; Nattars and Jati Councils; King and
Kaniyatchi; Moral Boundaries to Authority; The Universe of
Kaniyatchi. 3. Early Rumblings. . . The Jagir under the Nawabs till 1776; Early Interactions: 1765-1780; The Aftermath of the War; The Poondamalli Episode. 4. The Thirumazhisai Episode. . . Place’s Perception of
Kaniyatchi, Place and the Board of Revenue; Place and the Badernavis Levy; The Desertion of
Parayar; Non-Cooperation and Desertion by Kaniyatchikarar; Reconciliation and Resettlement. 5. After
Thirumazhisai. Political Society in Todaimandalam; Capitalism, Company ‘Circar’ and Dr. Smith; Kaniyatchi Parts with its Ghost. 6. Roots of the Revolt: Identity, Interest and Models. . . Identities and Interests; Rehearsal for Rebellion?; Structure, Communitas and Despotic States; Boundaries of Power and Authority: The Implications of Accountability. Appendix, Glossary of Tamil Words, Bibliography, Index. Anthropology and Sociology The Craft of Social Anthropology by A. L. Epstein Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-274, Paperback, Year-1979, A significant, almost unique book Times Literary Supplement Anthropology and Sociology Marriage Among Muslims by Hastings Donnan Price: Rs.300, US $20 Description: Pages-232, (Hard Bound), Year-1988, A refreshing antidote to [an] overemphasis on genealogy. New Community “Monographic works on Muslims in South Asia have been seriously lacking. Dr. Donnan’s work fills this yawning gap and is welcome on that count alone quite apart from the substantial contribution it makes towards the uderstanding of Muslim marriage practices in South Asia. -The Indian Economic and Social History Review Anthropology and Sociology Village Studies in the Third World by Biplab Dasgupta Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-228, (Hard Bound), Year-1978, All those who are concerned with the organisation of village studies - from policy-makers in the government to field-workers collecting data at the village level will find abundant material and guidance in this book containing valuable papers on different aspects of the subject by authors who have decades of experience behind them.” Eastern Economist Contributors include
(Biplab Dasgupta, M. Lipton, M. N. Srinivas, B. K. Roy Burman, D. W. Norman, A.
Pearse, T. S. Epstein, R. Laishley, and others), Anthropology and Sociology The Loom of Interdependence: Silk Weaving Cooperatives in Kanchipuram by Yvonne J. Arterburn Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-206, (Hard Bound), Year-1982, It is to be hoped that this important book will be widely read and used by scholars and practitioners in the fields of South Asian studies, urban anthropology, economic development and political economy.” -Eva
Friedlander, in Culture “ A solid piece of painstaking anthropology research. . . provides interesting insights into the operational complexities of cooperation. . .” -Pacific Affairs Anthropology and Sociology Caste and Class by R. K. Bhadra Price: Rs.200, US $14 Description: Pages-174, (Hard Bound), Year-1991, ISBN-81-7075-016-6, CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. 2. The Social Structure and Stratification in the Traditional Assam. The Caste System. Social Organisation of Vaishnava Religion. Vaishnavism and Social Mobility in Medieval Society. Individual and Family Mobility. Medieval Feudalism and Class Structure. 3. Social Stratification in the British and Post-Independence Period. Agrarian Reforms and Class Structure. Tea Plantations and Growth of Agricultural Proletariat. Changes in the Post-Independence Period. 4. Social Stratification in the Villages. 5. The Economic Structure and Stratification. The Organisation of Agrarian Production. The Agrarian Class Structure. Impact of Tea Plantation on the Class Structure. 6. Power and Authority as Bases of Stratification. Gaon-Panchayat. The Mel and Namghar Authority. The Informal Village Leaders. The Political Power and its Network. A Critique of Dominant Caste. 7. Conclusion. References. Index. Anthropology and Sociology The Jajmani System: An Investigation by Bruce Caldwell Price: Rs.200, US $14 Description: Pages-128, (Hard Bound), Year-1991, ISBN-81-7075-018-0. The Jajmani System is a recurring theme in the anthropology of India. It has been characterised as the economic counterpart of the caste system, whereby specialised castes provide their services to farming families in return for a share of the latter’s harvest produce. This book is an investigation of how the system operates in rural India, and of the anthropological concept of the jajmani system itself. It contends that the jajmani system as conveyed in the anthropological literature is heavily influenced by older concepts, especially of the village community, and consequently does not always accurately reflect the reality of the Indian village. The topic is of interest because the jajmani system has been characterized as an alternative economic system to the market economy, and because it involves a journey through a number of debates concerning the nature of Indian society over the last two hundred years. CONTENTS: 1. The Origins of the Jajmani Debate. Wiser: The Concept of a System. Munro and
Wilks: the Village Republic. Maine: The Community of Status, Rationalism and the Social Contract.
Mukerjee: The Collective Conscious and the Utopian Community. Wiser: The Community in a Guise 2. The Jajmani System: An Anthropological Debate. Lewis: The Exploitative Community. Dumont:
Jajmani, an Aspect of Caste. Jajmans, Purohits, Zamindars, and
Kamins: Dumont and Parry Compared. 3. Jajmani in Mayasandra. Geography of the Region. The Caste.
Hadade: Paymemts in Grains Inam: Payment in Land. Payments in Money.
Hadde, Inam and Money Payment Compared. 4. The Searching for a System. Livelihood. Dumont and the Satisfaction of Need. Why do permanent Ties Exist. 5. Conclusion. Village Community: Real or Artefact from the Community of Understanding to the Ideology of Purity. The Jajmani System: In Historical Context and in the Ethnographic Context. Why continue the jajmani Debate. Bibliography. Index. Anthropology and Sociology Female Infanticide and Social Structure: A Socio-Historicalstudy in Western and Northern India by L. S. Vishwanath Price: Rs.450, US $30 Description: This book deals with castes which practised female infanticide in west and north India during the 19th and 20th centuries. It shows how female infanticide was closely linked to the social structure of castes such as the
Rajputs, Lewa Patidars, Kanbis, Jats and Khutris. Further, it shows how female infanticide was related to
hypergamy, status gradation within caste and avoidance of substantial dowry payment by parents in connection with weddings of daughters. The analysis of the data suggests that female infanticide was caste specific. Some castes tried to maintain their status in the hypergamous hierarchy and socio-economic dominance through female infanticide; others did not do so though they too had hypergamy and paid dowry. The book also contains an indepth analysis of British policies for the suppression of female infanticide and draws attention to the significant changes in their strategies which shifted from Orientalism based on Shastra and Purana to coercion (in 1830’s) and empiricism by mid-19th century. The comparative framework is used to analyse female infanticide in north and west India. These two regions are compared with south India which has recently acquired prominence with reference to female infanticide. CONTENTS (Chapter Headings) 1. Introduction. 2. Social Framework among Rajputs and Female Infanticide in Peninsular Gujarat. 3. Suppression of Female Infanticide among Rajputs of Peninsular Gujarat. 4. The Lewa Kanbis and Patidars of Central Gujarat: The Social Framework. 5. Female Infanticide among the Lewa
Kanbis/Patidars. 6. Female Infanticide in North India. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Glossary. Index Anthropology and Sociology Iron School Master: Education, Employment and the Family in India by David Drury Price: Rs.250, US $17 Description: Pages-196, (Hard Bound), Year-1993, ISBN-81-7075-025-3. This book is an ethnography of education in the context of author’s fieldwork in the homes and factories of
Kanpur, and industrial city in northern India. The fundamental questions and their implications for national education policies, as dealt with in this book, are certainly not limited to India. The issues it raises are relevant to other developing nations - and increasingly - to parents, employers and school system in parts of Europe and North America. With such broadened international scope, the book is intended for an international as well as Indian audience. “Here is an ‘ethnography of education’ based on extensive case histories of 123 families of divergent backgrounds in
Kanpur. The study. seeks to explore how the family—its socio-economic position, its attitude towards education or the way it links education with job and marriage—plays an important role in the kind of education one gets.” -Contributions to Indian Sociology CONTENTS: 1. Family Decision and the Demand for Education. . . The Paradox of Demand; Alternative Approaches: Economic Investment Model and ‘Social Reproduction’ Theories; The Present Research. 2. The City Setting:
Kanpur. . . History of the City; Present Day Industrial Structure; Social Characteristics. 3. Scope of Discussions. . . Education During the British Period; Education after Independence; Education in Uttar Pradesh and
Kanpur; The Kanpur School System, Teachers and Facilities; Postscript. 4. Methods and Introduction to the Samples. Overview of the Fieldwork: Sampling Strategy; Limits of the Samples; Difficult Questions and Questionable Answers; Profiles of the Industrial and Student Samples. 5. The Middle Class: The Home Environment. . . Resources; The Informants as Children - Education Histories, Support for School in the Natal Family, Economic Security and Commitment to Education, Biography, Family Folklore, and Motivation; the Informants as Parents - Household Composition and family size, Education Decision Making, Choosing Schools, School Costs and Financing, Help with Schoolwork, Rewards and Punishments, Special Help: Speaking English/Preschools/Teachers and Tutoring. 6. The Middle Class; Perceptions of the Opportunity Structure and Effects on the School System. . . PART 1: EDUCATION AND THE OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE - Job Floors and Job Ceilings; Mobility Strategies: The Businessmen; Mobility Strategies: Office Workers and Technicians; Family Influence and Family Background. PART 2: EFFECTS ON THE SCHOOL SYSTEM - The Rise of Unrecognised Private Schools; The Struggle for Access to the Convent Schools; Epilogue: Class Advantage and the Morality of Competition. 7. The Disadvantaged: Manual Workers. . . Class, Caste and Gender; The Manual Workers as Children: Educational Histories, and Reasons for Leaving Schools; Aspirations and Perceptions of the Opportunity Structure. 8. The Disadvantaged: Scheduled Castes and Women. PART 1: THE SCHEDULED CASTES - The Scheduled Castes in Education; Government Incentives: Do they Make a Difference?, Information and the Job Ceiling. PART 2: WOMEN - Education and Marriage Prospects; The ‘Dowry’ Ceiling; Spending on Dowry vs. Spending on Education. 9. Conclusion. Education and Mobility Strategies: The Business Families; White Collar Employees; Manual Workers and the Scheduled Castes; The Legitimacy Issue; Information Networks; Decision-making and the Nuclearisation of Family Ties; Marriage Networks and Women’s Education; Implications for Human Capital Theory; Policy Implications, Epilogue: The Power of the Family. References. Index. | 
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