Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India by Yamini Narayanan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press,…
Posts Tagged 'india'
Local Histories of Cancer
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi, Banerjee, Dwaipayan, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Éva-Rozália…
Women Becoming Health Workers in India
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India, by Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) Reviewed…
Elements of Politics
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). Reviewed by…
Secularism and Islamic Divorce in India
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, by Katherine Lemons (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019) Reviewed…
Enforced Disappearances and Everyday Life In Kashmir
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir by Ather Zia (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019). Reviewed by…
Populism Unriddled
People’s Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism, by Sarasij Majumder (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019) reviewed by…
Book Review: Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River
In Navigating Austerity, Laura Bear applies an ethnographic approach to understand how social relations and ethics are impacted by the…
We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
We Were Adivasis takes readers into the daily lives and aspirations of the Dhanka of Rajasthan—a community that challenges anthropological imaginations. Since the 1950s, the Dhanka have…
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Jeffrey Witsoe’s Democracy against Development brings ethnographic and theoretical attention to the dynamics of postcolonial democracy in India. The book…