Pandian Crooked Stalks

Cultivating Virtue in South India
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9101-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

An ethnography on the meaning of virtue amongst the Kallar people of rural southern India, who were considered to be a criminal caste by the British colonizers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pandian, Anand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Note on Transliteration xv

Introduction 1

1. "A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape": On Savage Selves and More Civil Places 31

2. "What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Grop?": On the Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenship 65

3. "The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling": On the Nature and Restraint of the Criminal Animal 101

4. "Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil": On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toil 141

5. "Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass": On the Sympathies of an Aqueous Self 181

Epilogue 221

Notes 241

Glossary 283

Bibliography 289

Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Anand Pandian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an editor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, also published by Duke University Press.