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Autore |
Ramesh Bairy, T. S. |
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Titolo |
Being Brahmin, being modern : exploring the lives of caste today / / Ramesh Bairy T.S |
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New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-19819-9 |
1-283-96904-1 |
0-203-08544-2 |
1-136-19820-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (371 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Brahmans - India - History - 20th century |
Caste - India - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-343) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Seeking a Foothold; 2 Question of Method: Caste in/and/as Identity; 3 The Modern World of Brahmins: A Schematic History; 4 Intersecting Voices, Shifting Identifications: Complicating the Contours of the Non-Brahminical Othering of the Brahmin; 5 The Bounds of Agency: Engaging the Space of Brahmin Associations; 6 Identities and Displacements: On the Selfhood of the Contemporary Brahmin; 7 Agency and Identity in the World of Brahmins; Bibliography; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today's Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry - the persona of the 'Brahmin' embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the |
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