Patricia Uberoi (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condition: New. pp. x + 502 Figures Maps.

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Condition: New. pp. xix + 309 Index Oxford India Paperbacks, 2nd Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. This important volume contributes substantively to the current debate on the role of gender studies in the overall context of the development of Indian sociology. In the theory and practice of the women's movement in India as well as the study of gender-related issues, the role of the state is seen as problematic. The state is vested with the responsibility for engineering social reform; however, it is seen as furthering the sectional interests of social groups based on race, class, caste, and sex. Of particular note are questions relating to gender, and male and female sexuality. The state is expected to protect the special interests of women, but is seen to endorse men's control over women; it is expected to guarantee individual liberties, but it is seen to define what is "normal" and "deviant" in sexual terms; it is expected to uphold the notion of personal privacy, but it is seen to monitor the sexual practices of the populace. Social Reform, Sexuality, and the State brings together a wide range of perspectives from sociologists, social anthropologists, historians, and legal system scholars who reflect on the processes of policy formation, legislation, and dispute adjudication as applied to the intersection of social reform, sexuality, gender, and the state. This book will be of interest to those concerned with gender studies, sociology, social anthropology, law, history, and social policy.…

Condition: New. pp. xiv + 552 Figures.

Condition: New. pp. i + 49.

Condition: New. pp. x + 502, Maps, Index 10th Impression.

Condition: New. pp. x + 502.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9780195635089,Territorial restriction maybe printed on the book. This is an Int'l edition, ISBN and cover may differ from US edition, Contents same as US edition.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents: Preface. Introduction/Patricia Uberoi. I. Regional varieties : north and south: 1. The kinship map of India/Irawati Karve and Thomas R. 2. The study of Dravidian kinship/Trautmann. 3. North India in relation to South India/Louis Dumont. II. Descent Groups and the Kindred: 1. Lineage structure and change in a Gujarat Village/A.M. Shah. 2. Brahman kinship in a Tamil Village/E. Kathleen Gough. 3. Gender and the Khasi family structure/Tiplut Nongbri. 4. Relatives and the Kindred in the Punjabi Kinship system/Paul Hershman. 5. Masks and faces: an essay on Punjabi Kinship/Veena Das. III. Marriage, alliance, and affinal transactions: 1. The Nayars and the definition of marriage/E. Kathleen Gough. 2. Himalayan polyandry and the domestic cycle/Gerald D. Berreman. 3. Marriage rules and patterns of marriage in the Dravidian kinship region/Thomas R. and Trautmann. 4. The structural implications of marriage in North India: wife-givers and wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir/T.N. Madan. 5. Marriage preferences among the Dhund of Northern Pakistan/Hastings Donnan. 6. The hypergamy of the Patidars/D.F.Pocock. 7. Dowry in North India: its consequences for women/Ursula Sharma. 8. Bridegroom price in urban India: caste, class and 'Dowry Evil' among Christians in Madras/Lionel Caplan. IV. Family, household and social change: 1. Karimpur families over sixty years/Susan S. Wadley and Bruce W. Derr. 2. The Hindu family and development/T.N. Madan. 3. The family and the reproduction of inequality/Andre Beteille. 4. Economics and the family/Amartya Sen. Glossary of technical terms. References. Index. "Family, Kinship and Marriage in India attempts to capture the great variety of family types and kinship practices found in the South Asia region. Several theoretical formulations which posit an underlying unity in this variety, and some sophisticated new analyses of family and kinship are presented in an accessible form. Offering the best recent work as well as some celebrated classic writings, the readings also try to integrate a concern for gender issues into the study of Indian family and kinship.".…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 0195635086. 1994, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Condition: New. pp. i + 49 Acknowledgements.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Minor reading wear. Owner name on fly leaf. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. x, 502 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction the professionalisation of Indian anthropology and sociology people places and institutions/Patricia Uberoi Satish Deshpande and Nandini Sundar. 2. Anthropology as Ananthropology L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer (1861 1937) Colonial Anthropology and the Native Anthropologists as pioneer/Kalpana Ram. 3. The Nationalist Sociology of Benoy Kumar Sarkar/Roma Chatterji. 4. Recasting the Oraons and the Tribe Sarat Chandra Roy's Anthropology/Sangeeta Desgupta. 5. Patrick Geddes sociologist environmentalist and town planner/Indra Munshi. 6. The idea of Indian Society G.S. Ghurye and the making of Indian Sociology/Carol Upadhya. 7. Search for synthesis the sociology of D.P. Mukerji/T.N. Madan. 8. The anthropologist as scientist Nirmal Kumar Bose/Pradip Kumar Bose. 9. Between anthropology and literature the ethnographies of Verrier Elwin/Ramachandra Guha. 10. In the cause of anthropology the life and work of Irawati Karve/Nandini Sundar. 11. Towards a Praxiological understanding of Indian Society the sociology of A.R. Desai/Sujata Patel. 12. Ties that bind tribe village nation and S.C. Dube/Saurabh Dube. 13. Fashioning a postcolonial discipline M.N. Srinivas and Indian sociology/Satish Deshpande. Index. Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet with the exception of fieldwork experience there is neither much available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines nor on the practices of pioneering anthropologists and sociologists. The present book fills an important gap. While the sociology of India is not purely national phenomenon (scholars and centers studying Indian exist outside) and while western theories have been important this book shows that local influences and personalities played a major role in shaping the field. The volume spans a century of life and work from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century and focuses on scholars with varying research trajectories. However it also shows the threads that bind these scholars their common concern with nation building social reform and the value of science. Combining biography institutional history and critical assessment this book will interest all anthropologists sociologists and South Asianists as well as those interested in intellectual history and biography. 552 pp.…

N.A. Condition: New. ISBN:9788178243009 N.A.

Condition: Good. Original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, some illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 8vo.; Edges dust jacket slightly worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(+). Octavo in duotone green jacket illus un color (front); xix, 309 pages: chiefly color illustrations; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 264-299) and index. "This volume of seven essays on themes of family and gender in Indian popular culture seeks to commend popular culture as an important resource for sociological insights into contemporary social issues and processes. Drawing its material from three popular media - 'calendar art' (popular chromolithography), commercial 'Bollywood' cinema, and magazine romance fiction - the essays bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on the representation of the family, of childhood, of courtship and conjugality, of arranged and love marriage, of femininity and masculinity, and of sexuality within and outside marriage, as well as on the wider dilemmas and dynamics of Indian modernity and nation-building."--BOOK JACKET. Contents: 1. 'Beautyfull wife, denger life': engaging with popular culture -- A moving message -- 'Beautyfull wife, denger life' -- Reading popular culture -- The concept of popular culture -- The semiotics of popular culture -- Imagining the nation -- Gender and genre -- Visual culture and the controlling 'gaze' -- Reading the romance -- Gender and resistance -- Rethinking the family -- The kinship map of India -- The Indian joint family -- Arranged marriage -- Dowry and brideprice -- The limits of family change -- The moral economy of the Indian Family -- Dharma and desire, freedom, and destiny -- 2. Feminine identity and national ethos in calendar art -- Woman/goddess/nation: a contemporary controversy -- Defining calendar art -- Ravi Varma and the invention of calendar art -- Deciphering the archive: gender and calendar art -- Objects of desire/commodities on sale -- Icons of nation -- Plurality and difference -- Trajectories of change? -- 3. 'Baby' icons: forms and figures of a new generation -- Introduction -- Envisioning childhood -- South Asian childhoods -- Child socialization as pathology -- Childhood between tradition and modernity -- Cosmologies of childhood -- Representing the child -- God-baby -- Welcome-baby -- Citizen-baby -- Hero-baby -- Customized-baby -- 4. Desire and destiny: rescripting the man-woman relationship in popular cinema -- Prologue: on a personal note -- The body language of popular cinema -- The problematics of romance -- Dharma and desire -- Freedom and destiny -- A paradigm of desire -- Jabba and Bhoothnath -- Chhote Sarkar and the courtesan -- Chhoti Bahu and Chhote Sarkar Bhoothnath and Chhoti Bahu -- Happy and unhappy endings -- 5. Imagining the family: an ethnography of viewing Hum Aapke Hain Koun .! -- What makes a 'clean' movie? -- The lack of 'vulgarity' -- The display of affluence -- The spirit of 'sacrifice' -- The family as 'tradition' -- The constitution of the ideal Indian family -- The ideal of the joint family -- Affinity as a value -- The truth-telling voice -- The pleasures of viewing: voyeurism, narcissism, and a happy ending -- The emblematic family -- 6. The diaspora comes home: discipling desire in DDLJ -- Prologue -- Indianness: at home and abroad -- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge -- Romance, Indian style -- The tyranny of 'tradition' -- Pardes: reinstituting the contradiction of India and the West -- 'American dreams, Indian soul' -- Indian dream, transnational location -- 7. Learning to 'adjust': the dynamics of post-marital romance -- Domesticating romance fiction -- Woman's era -- Twenty tales of true romance -- Tales of courtship -- Tales of conjugal love -- Sources of marital tension -- Mediation -- Resolution -- True-life tales of marital breakdown -- Prescription for a happy marriage -- Conclusion -- 8. Scripting romance? Tribulations of courtship in popular fiction -- Introduction: constructing the problematic -- Narrative trajectories -- Making 'love' respectable -- Putting 'love' into arranged marriage -- Conclusion. / Women in popular culture -- India. Women -- India -- Social conditions. Families --.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback copy in Very Good condition. The contributions to this volume comprise papers by eminent scholars on a range of themes that have been the focus of T.N. Madans invaluable contribution to sociological research. They cover topics including the sociology of religion, caste, family and kinship, health care, ethnicity, the Indian Diaspora as well as notions of secularism in the Indian context. …

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a Fine dj, protected by a mylar cover. Hardcover with dust jacket. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 160 pages; full-page and full-spread color photographic plates throughout; 11.5 x 9 inches. Out of Print. Paolo Pellizzari's photographs present scenes of ordinary life in the streets, squares, and public locations around India. The panoramic format of the photographs gives each picture the grand feeling of an operatic stage--capturing one billion details, one billion attitudes, and one billion feelings.…

First Edition. A new book that is clean and unread but has a few light marks on the top edge and a creased dust jacket at the bottom. Hardback. With dj.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. xix + 309 Illus. (Mostly Col.).

Delhi, Oxford Univ. Press, 1993. VIII,502 pp. Boards,d/j.

Condition: Fine. New Delhi 1998 Third Printing. Contributions to Indian Sociology, Occasional Studies 7. 8vo., 404pp., index, boards. Fine in Near Fine VG DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1998 OUP harcover edition. Some reading wear, toning to pages else good condition. From the cover: The woman's body is the foundation on which gender inequality is built, established and legitimized, and understanding it in different contexts, settings and situations is therefore the primary objective of this book. All the essays, in different ways, examine gender inequalities which are revealed in the complex interplay between society, gender and body. Subjects covered include Indian feminist movements, Western views on prostitution, the notion of space in relation to female identity, a socio-historical study of a scandal and women, sexuality and marriage. This book is important because the papers in it directly address the problem of gender identity as constituted by the woman's body in relation to family, community and society in everyday life. Contents Introduction: Gender and Embodiment in Everyday Life by Meenakshi Thapan SECTION I: THE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED BODY: CASTE, COMMUNITY AND NATIONALISM Scandal in High Places: Discourses on the Chaste Hindu Woman in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal by Tanika Sarkar Female Sexuality and Community in Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga by Jasodhara Bagchi Abducted and Widowed Women: Questions of Sexuality and Citizenship During Partition by Urvashi Butalia SECTION II: THE LIVED BODY IN EVERYDAY LIFE: SPACE, PERFORMANCE AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS Femininity, Space and the Female Body: An Anthropological Perspective by Seemanthini Niranjana Femininity and the Body of Female Ballet Dancers in The Netherlands by Anna Aalten Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-Woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema by Patricia Uberoi Femininity and its Discontents: Woman's Body in Intimate Relationships by Meenakshi Thapan SECTION III: DISCIPLINING THE BODY: THE DISCOURSE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL REGULATION OF PROSTITUTION The Witch in the Category: A Cultural Approach to Menstrual Symptomatology by Punam Zutshi Prostitution: The Contemporary Feminist Discourse by Jean D'Cunha SECTION IV: SUBVERSIVE VOICES AND RESISTING BODIES: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE STRATEGIES The Impossible Subject: Caste in the Scene of Desire by Susie Tharu Femininity and Sexual Difference: A Critical Reading of Helene Cixous by Vidhu Verma Women and Work: From Housewifization to Androgyny by Susan Visvanathan Shame and Control: Sexuality and Power in Feminist Discourse in India by Kalpana Viswanath. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Oxford University Press, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good. Spotting along page ends.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. xix + 309 Acknowledgements.

Hardcover. Condition: New. NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.