Kerala, a small state in South India, has been celebrated as a development model by
scholars across the world for its exemplary achievements in human development and …

The incorporation of various information and communication technologies (ICTs) in
ethnographic methods mandates a reconsideration of the understanding and practice of …

We study the relationship between dowries–wealth transfers from the bride's family to the
groom or his family at the time of marriage–and individual-level poverty in rural India. Based …

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and
commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social …

How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that,
who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration …

This article investigates the influence of international migration on the filial norms of elder
care in transnational families of Syrian Christian nurses from Kerala, South India. We …

Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as
professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered …

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental
disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional …

Kerala is well-known globally for the unprecedented fertility transition in the Indian
subcontinent towards the end of the last century. The state has already reached below …

The idea of this book emerged many years ago when we were involved in research projects
in India and began to teach the anthropology of India. We found it difficult to gain an …