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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Akhil GuptaPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9780822322139ISBN 10: 0822322137 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 20 July 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a work of prodigious, exacting anthropological scholarship that represents the best in combining traditional practices of ethnography with new theoretical influences. - George E. Marcus, Rice University A truly unusual and provocative first book, written with grace, verve, and clarity. Akhil Gupta places rural life in India in the context of a sharp and informed view of India's larger political economy. - Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago [An] important debut. . . . Working his way skillfully into the 1990s and relying mainly on field research conducted in the 1980s, Gupta weaves a seamless fabric of narrative and analysis that presents the postcolonial condition as a patchwork garment both made and worn by the farmers and agricultural laborers of North India. . . . Gupta contributes a sustained and powerful study that will be necessary reading, and invaluable material, for those building a critique of the romanticism and essentialism that have deeply flawed postcolonial criticism. . . . [ Postcolonial Developments ] should definitely stir quite a bit of interest and debate. . . . <br>--K. Sivaramakrishnan, American Ethnologist """This is a work of prodigious, exacting anthropological scholarship that represents the best in combining traditional practices of ethnography with new theoretical influences."" - George E. Marcus, Rice University ""A truly unusual and provocative first book, written with grace, verve, and clarity. Akhil Gupta places rural life in India in the context of a sharp and informed view of India's larger political economy."" - Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago" A truly unusual and provocative first book, written with grace, verve, and clarity. Akhil Gupta places rural life in India in the context of a sharp and informed view of India's larger political economy. -Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago This is a work of prodigious, exacting anthropological scholarship, which represents the best in combining traditional practices of ethnography with new theoretical influences. -George E. Marcus, Rice University Many have despaired of the possibility of studying the vast forces and conditions of the contemporary world-globalization, postcoloniality, late capitalism-through ethnographic methods that continue to focus on the specific and the 'local.' Akhil Gupta has provided us with a brilliant example of how this can be done. In the process he has rewritten the very categories of the global and the local, and has done so within a prose of extraordinary lucidity and power. -Sherry Ortner, Columbia University Author InformationAkhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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