Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life 2
Strategies, Networks, and Markets
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 1 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198064466
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 215x140 mm
- Weight 100 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is the second volume of two readers on social and economic anthropology in the Indian context. It is concerned with the rise of novelty in economic arrangements in Indian society.
MoreLong description:
This is the second of two readers on the sociology and anthropology of economic life that together provide an account of major issues in the area of economic anthropology and sociology as they pertain to the study of Indian society and culture. This volume, Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life 2: Strategies, Networks, Markets, is concerned with the rise of novelty in economic arrangements in Indian society. With the opening of the Indian economy in
the 1990s and rapid globalization, a fresh set of conceptual and empirical challenges have arisen. New alignments between law, governance, and markets have meant new possibilities and threats for different sections of the population. The essays in this volume are clustered around three themes. The first is the
examination and documentation of transformations in the traditional institutions of kinship and caste. The second theme involves the analysis of networks, ranging from local neighborhood networks to transnational ones that have enabled circulation of information, capital and people. The third theme addresses globalization, defined not only as actual movements of capital, people and goods but also the production of globalized images; conflicts over patents and brand names; and the gap between
law and practice in the case of new markets for products such as body parts.
This book examines the manner in which opportunities are differentially distributed. The rich and fascinating ethnographies in this volume provide well-documented case studies with which to comprehend theoretical issues. The essays provide a set of critical concepts with which to make an assessment of the changes taking place in the Indian economic scene.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das); Section I - Strategies and Networks;
The Genesis and Growth of a Business Community: A Case Study of Vaghri Street Traders in Ahmedabad (Emma Tarlo);
Slum Dwellers, Savings, Gifts and their External Credit Relations for Shelter (Peer Smets);
Lords of Labour: Working and Shirking in Bhilai (Jonathan Parry);
Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class and Student Power in Modern North India (Craig Jeffrey);
Caste and Corporatist Capitalism (Barbara Harriss-White); Section II - Transnational and Global Markets;
Indian Merchants Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey (Claude Matkovits);
'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency (William Mazzarella);
In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-Nationalism and Globalization (Denis Vidal);
The Social Production of Development Success (David Mosse);
Gender, Dowry, and the Migrations System of Indian Information Technology Professionals (Xiang Biao);
Legitimacy, Power and Healing: The Bhopal Case (Veena Das); Notes on Contributors; Index
