Everyday life in South Asia /
edited by Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.
- viii, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-486) and index.
One straw from a broom cannot sweep : the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Allah gives both boys and girls / "Out here in Kathmandu" : youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal / The role of suffering in women's performance of paxto / Love and aging in Bengali families / Memorializing the self : the autobiographical will and testament of Narayana Guruviah Chetty, Madras City, 1915 / New light in the house : schooling girls in rural North India / Family and gender systems in transition : a thirty-five-year perspective / Offstage with special drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India : roadwork / Nervous masculinity : consumption and the production of embodied gender in Indian wrestling / Dosti and Tamanna : male-male love, difference, and normativity in Hindi cinema / Life on the margins : a Hijra's story / God-chariots in a garden of castes : hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / High and low castes in Karani / The erasure of everyday life in colonial ethnography / Anjali's prospects : class mobility in urban India / Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system -- The Hindu gods in a south Indian village / The feast of love / The delusion of gender and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Presence : Yolmo spirit-callings in Nepal / Tunes rising from the soul and other narcissistic prayers : contested realms in Bangladesh / Political praise in Tamil newspapers : the poetry and iconography of Democratic power / Outsiders at home : the south Asian diaspora in South Asia / Why do Hindus and Muslims fight : children and history in India / Walking through violence : "Everyday life" and anthropology / Interviews with high school students in Eastern Sri Lanka / Cindy at the Taj : cultural enclosure and corporate potentateship in an era of globalization / A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Unexpected destinations / Susan S. Wadley -- Patricia Jeffery Roger Jeffery -- Mark Liechty -- Benedicte Grima -- Sarah Lamb -- Mattison Mines -- Ann Grodzins Gold -- Susan Seymour -- Susan Seizer -- Joseph S. Alter -- Ruth Vanita -- Serena Nanda -- Steven M. Parish -- Viramma, Josiane Racine Jean-Luc Racine -- Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Sara Dickey -- Diane P. Mines -- McKim Marriott -- Kim Gutschow -- Robert Desjarlais -- Jim Wilce -- J. Bernard Bate -- Gautam Ghosh -- Nita Kumar -- Pradeep Jeganathan -- Margaret Trawick -- William Mazzarella -- Paula Richman -- Kathleen Hall -- Kirin Narayan -- E. Valentine Daniel. and with and