Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance by Doron, Assa

Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754675501)

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Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance by Doron, Assa

Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance

$225.00
Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance by Doron, Assa

Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
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This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa Doron examines the evolution of the boatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources to illuminate the cultural politics of social and economic inequality in contemporary India. Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges offers insight into recent debates about the cultural and historical forms of social practice and resistance at the juncture between tradition and the global economy, and will therefore appeal not only to anthropologists, but to anyone working in the field of development studies, globalization, religion, politics and cultural studies.

Author: Assa Doron
ISBN-10: 0754675505
ISBN-13: 9780754675501
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Assa Doron
By Assa Doron
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Assa Doron is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, at The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia

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