This book establishes a history of attention to detail (rather than an amassing of details) to di...

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the...

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globaliz...

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the...

The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation betwee...

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that soci...

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that soci...

'Social suffering' takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--...

A collection of original essays that address the ways in which violence manifests itself on socie...

This book brings together readings on social and economic anthropology in the Indian context. It ...

Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of...

Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophe...

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming co...

Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of...

In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weav...

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of...

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming co...

This book is an original sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual based on selected myths ...

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of...

'A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researc...