South Asia in Transition - An Introduction to the Social Anthropology of a Subcontinent (Hardcover)

South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region of the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first set of chapters deal mostly with India, being successively on caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. The second set of chapters deal successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2020
Authors:	Robert Parkin
Dimensions:	228 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-79361-178-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-79361-178-5
Barcode:	9781793611789

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