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Sociology and Anthropology of Economic life. : The Moral Embedding of Economic Action / edited by Veena Das, Ranendra K. Das.

Contributor(s): Series: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology | Oxford India paperbacksPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: viii, 304 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199453320 (pbk.)
  • 0199453322 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Moral embedding of economic action
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.30954 DAS
LOC classification:
  • GN635.I4 S635 2014
Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das) Section I - Reading the Ethnographic Record: Conceptual and Methodological Issues 2. Class Structure in an Agrarian Society: The Case of the Jotedars (Andre Beteille) 3. Misconceiving the Grain Heap: A Critique of the Concept of the Indian Jajmani System (C.J. Fuller) 4. Knowing About Rural Economic Change: Problems Arising From a Comparison of the Results of 'Macro' and 'Micro' Research in Tamil Nadu (John Harris) Section II — Nature, Institutions and Environment 5. 'Indigenous' Knowledges: Ecology (Akhil Gupta) 6. The Local Politics of Groundwater in North Gujarat (Navroz K. Dubash) 7. Perspectives on Commons' Encroachment (Rita Brara) BSection III — Sentiments, Values and Affects 8. 'Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass': On the Sympathetic Currents of the Aqueous Self (Anand Pandian) 9. On the Moral Perils of Exchange (Johathan Parry) 10. Women's Work: Quilt Making and Gift Giving (Deepak Mehta) 11. On Living in the Kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh (Christopher Pinney) Newcomers to the World of Goods: Consumption among the Muria Gonds (Alfred Gell) Notes on Contributors; Index
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das)
Section I - Reading the Ethnographic Record: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
2. Class Structure in an Agrarian Society: The Case of the Jotedars (Andre Beteille)
3. Misconceiving the Grain Heap: A Critique of the Concept of the Indian Jajmani System (C.J. Fuller)
4. Knowing About Rural Economic Change: Problems Arising From a Comparison of the Results of 'Macro' and 'Micro' Research in Tamil Nadu (John Harris)
Section II — Nature, Institutions and Environment
5. 'Indigenous' Knowledges: Ecology (Akhil Gupta)
6. The Local Politics of Groundwater in North Gujarat (Navroz K. Dubash)
7. Perspectives on Commons' Encroachment (Rita Brara)
BSection III — Sentiments, Values and Affects
8. 'Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass': On the Sympathetic Currents of the Aqueous Self (Anand Pandian)
9. On the Moral Perils of Exchange (Johathan Parry)
10. Women's Work: Quilt Making and Gift Giving (Deepak Mehta)
11. On Living in the Kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh (Christopher Pinney)
Newcomers to the World of Goods: Consumption among the Muria Gonds (Alfred Gell)
Notes on Contributors; Index