Being Brahmin, being modern : exploring the lives of caste today / / Ramesh Bairy T.S

• Autore: Ramesh Bairy, T. S.
• Pubblicazione: New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5122
• Soggetto topico: Brahmans - India - History - 20th century; Caste - India - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-343) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 public culture of print; and finally, taking o
• Titolo autorizzato: Being Brahmin, being modern
• ISBN: 1-136-19819-9; 1-283-96904-1; 0-203-08544-2; 1-136-19820-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786145503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II