Poverty and the quest for life spiritual and material striving in rural India Bhrigupati Singh.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2015Description: xiii, 335 pages illustrations, map 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226194547 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 305.5/6909544 23
- DS485.R25 S56 2015
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Book | French Institute of Pondicherry | IFP Social Science collection | ETHN 1226 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 03/17/2024 | SS21655 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index.
First impressions, and further -- The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life -- Mitra-Varuna : state power and powerlessness -- The coarse and the fine : contours of a slow-moving crisis -- Contracts, bonds, and bonded labor -- Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play -- Divine migrations : neighborliness between humans, animals, and gods -- The waxing and waning life of Kalli -- Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic -- Departure, and marriages and deaths -- The quality of life : a daemonic view.
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