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Lawrence A. Babb's Emerald City provides an intriguing portrait of the gemstone cutting industry of the North Indian city of Jaipur. It focuses on the ownership class consisting mainly of Jains and members of northern India's traditional trading communities. Based on oral-historical investigations of family firms, along with ethnographic observations and interviews, the book describes how the industry is organized, when and how it developed its characteristic features, and its evolving relationship with its social context. Babb pays special attention to the impact of culture on the business, with particular emphasis on the role of religion, specifically Jainism. He also offers a systematic comparison between Jaipur's gemstone business and New York City's famed diamond industry. In its application of ethnographic methodology to the study of an indigenous Indian industry, Emerald City delivers a unique perspective on business life in a non-Western setting.
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...engaging Gems have long been of enormous cultural and economic importance in South Asia and this book, based on a vanishing oral archive, will long stand as a seminal study of this trade. Religious Studies Review"
..".engaging ... Gems have long been of enormous cultural and economic importance in South Asia and this book, based on a vanishing oral archive, will long stand as a seminal study of this trade." -- Religious Studies Review
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..".engaging ... Gems have long been of enormous cultural and economic importance in South Asia and this book, based on a vanishing oral archive, will long stand as a seminal study of this trade." -- Religious Studies Review
Lawrence A. Babb is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of several books, including Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of Trade in Western India and (with John E. Cort and Michael W. Meister) Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, Art-Historical, and Social Context.
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- PublisherAditya Prakashan
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8177421344
- ISBN 13 9788177421347
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- Number of pages220
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Dramatis personae: industrial multiculturalism. 3. The rise of the emerald elite. 4. Doling business. 5. Contexts. 6. The decline of the emerald elite. 7. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index. Lawrence A. Babb's Emerald City provides an intriguing portrait of the gemstone cutting industry of the North Indian city of Jaipur. It focuses on the ownership class consisting mainly of Jains and members of Northern India's traditional trading communities. Based on oral historical investigations of family firms, along with ethnographic observations and interviews, the book describes how the industry is organized when and how it developed its characteristic features, and its evolving relationship with its social context. Babb pays special attention to the impact of culture on the business, with particular emphasis on the role of religion, specifically Jainism. He also offers a systematic comparison between Jaipur's gemstone business and New York City's famed diamond industry. In its application of ethnographic methodology to the study of an indigenous Indian industry, Emerald City delivers a unique perspective on business life in a non-Western setting. Seller Inventory # 111492
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