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This volume is a collection of essays by the late Richard Burghart. It makes an important contribution to the study of religion, politics, and society in South Asia through a combination of ethnographic finesse, meticulous historical research, and the sustained working out of an original theoretical position. The essays are grouped into three sections: the first contains Burghart's theoretical papers on the interpretation of Hindu society, which introduce his crucial idea of 'intercultural' and intracultural translation', together with three examples of his empirical work on Ramanandi renouncers. The second section concentrates on Burghart's work on political culture and the historical development of the nation-state of Nepal. The third section illustrates Burghart's sociology of 'complex agency'.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Editorial Note; Introduction: History and Theory in the Interpretation of South Asian Society (C.J. Fuller and Jonathan Spencer); PART I SOCIETY AND RELIGION; 1. Hierarchical Models of the Hindu Social System; 2 For a Sociology of Indias: An Intracultural Approach to the Study of 'Hindu Society'; 3. Ethnographers and their Local Counterparts in India; 4. Wandering Ascetics of the Ramanandi Sect; 5. Renunciation in the Religious Traditions of South Asia; 6. The Regional Circumambulation of Janakpur: Seen in the Light of Vaishnavite Tradition; PART II POLITICAL CULTURE; 7. Gifts to the Gods: Power, Property and Ceremonial in Nepal; 8. The Formation of the Concept of Nation-State in Nepal; 9. The Category 'Hindu' in the Political Discourse of Nepal; 10. Cultural Collusion in Ethnography: The Religious Tolerance of Hindus; 11. The Conditions of Listening: The Everyday Experience of Politics in Nepal; PART III COMPLEX AGENCY; 12. The Cultural Consciousness of the National Health Service; 13. His Lordship at the Cobblers' Well; 14. A Quarrel in the Language Family: Agency and Representations of Speech in Mithila; Published Work by Richard Burghart; Bibliography

About the Author :
Richard Burghart was Professor of Ethnography at Heidelberg University till his death in 1994; C.J. Fuller is Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics; Jonathan Spencer is Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780195696011
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP India
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Essays on Religion, History and Politics in South Asia
  • ISBN-10: 0195696018
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N


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