Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India - Softcover

Pandian, Anand; Mariappan, M. P.

 
9780253012500: Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253012503 ISBN 13: 9780253012500
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

2nd Place, 2014 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing 2015 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection―rated outstanding

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About the Author

Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, co-editor of Ethical Life in South Asia (IUP, 2011) and Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, and a contributor to Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2010).

M. P. Mariappan (1919-2014) was a retired fruit merchant living in the south Indian city of Madurai at the time he co-authored Ayya's Accounts.

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her many books include Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253012503
ISBN 13 
9780253012500
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232

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