The relationship between a hierarchical order of castes, with its focus on the superior
position of the Brahman, on the one hand, and a conception of sovereignty focused on the …

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in
the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together …

Uma das etnógrafas de maior renome da atualidade, Veena Das reúne um magnífico
trabalho de campo e uma análise crítica aguda, em um poderoso livro que traz uma …

In the essay that follows, I shall be concerned with the genealogy of an idea. But before I put
forward this genealogy, I need to make two preliminary arguments. The first involves the …

In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary
spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture …

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual
and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the" third sex" of India …

Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--
a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The …

In repeatedly trying to write the meaning (s) of violence against women in Indian society, I
find that the languages of pain through which social sciences could gaze at, touch, or …

From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the
possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader …

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the
writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a …