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240036 VO The anthropology of India and South Asia: An introduction (2022W)
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Language: English
Examination dates
- Wednesday 25.01.2023 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 01.03.2023 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
- Friday 31.03.2023 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal I NIG Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 02.05.2023 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
UPDATE 13.12.2022: additional slot on January 11th.
UPDATE 19.10.2022: Due to illness the course on October 21st is cancelled and there will be an alternative date on November 4th instead.If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.- Wednesday 05.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 11.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
- Friday 14.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Friday 04.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 09.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 16.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 23.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 30.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 07.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 11.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 18.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Multiple-choice examination
No aids may be used
No aids may be used
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
For a positive grade, 51 % is required90-100 %= 1
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5
Examination topics
Multiple-choice examination covering all the topics discussed in class. The examination will assess the students’ critical understanding of the readings
Reading list
Fuller C. 2004. The camphor flame: Popular Hinduism and society in India - Revised and expanded edition. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, pp. 3-28van der Veer P. 2002. Religion in South Asia. Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 173-18711/10 – 13:15-14:45
Caste IJodhka S.S. 2017. Caste in contemporary India. London: Routledge, pp. 1-182010. Seven prevalent misconceptions about India’s caste system. In D.P. Mines and S. Lamb (eds.) Everyday life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 153-154TBA
Caste IIMichelutti L. 2004. ‘We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians’: Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town. Contributions to Indian sociology 38 (1-2): 43-71Gorringe H. 2008.The caste of the nation: Untouchability and citizenship in South India. Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 42(1): 123-4919/10 – 13:15-14:45
Education IAhearn L.M. 2004. Literacy, power, and agency: Love letters and development in Nepal. Language and Education 18(4): 305-316Del Franco N. 2010. Aspirations and self‐hood: Exploring the meaning of higher secondary education for girl college students in rural Bangladesh. Compare 40(2): 147-1659/11 – 13:15-14:45
Education IICiotti M. 2006. ‘In the past we were a bit “Chamar”’: Education as a self- and community engineering process in northern India. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 12: 899-916Khurshid A. 2017. Does education empower women? The regulated empowerment of parhi likhi women in Pakistan. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 48(3): 25-26816/11 – 13:15-14:45
Gender IAlter J. 1997. Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in north India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3): 275-298Nahar P. and Richters A. 2011. Suffering of childless women in Bangladesh: The intersection of social identities of gender and class. Anthropology & Medicine 18(3): 327-33823/11 – 13:15-14:45
Gender IIHossain A. 2012. Beyond emasculation: Being Muslim and becoming hijra in South Asia. Asian Studies Review 36(4): 495-513Zaman M.F. 2019. Segregated from the city: Women’s spaces in Islamic movements in Pakistan. City & Society 31(1): 55-7630/11 – 13:15-14:45
Youth ILiechty M. 2010. “Out here in Kathmandu”: Youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal. In D.P. Mines and S Lamb (eds.) Everyday life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 40-49Osella C. and Osella F. 1998. Friendship and flirting: Micropolitics in Kerala, South India. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(2): 189-2067/12 – 13:15-14:45
Youth IICiotti M. 2011. Remaking traditional sociality, ephemeral friendships and enduring political alliances: ‘State-made’ Dalit youth in rural northern Indian society. Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 59: 19-32Tyagi A. and Sen A. 2020. Love-jihad (Muslim sexual seduction) and ched-chad (sexual harassment): Hindu nationalist discourses and the ideal/deviant urban citizen in India. Gender, Place & Culture 27(1): 104-12511/01 – 13:15-14:45
MarriageCiotti M. 2010. ‘The bourgeois woman and the half-naked one’: Or the Indian nation's contradictions personified. Modern Asian Studies 4: 785-815Fuller C. J. and Narasimhan H. 2013. Marriage, education, and employment among Tamil Brahman women in South India, 1891–2010. Modern Asian Studies 47(1): 53-8418/01 – 13:15-14:45
MigrationSimpson E. 2003. Migration and Islamic reform in a port town of western India. Contributions to Indian Sociology 37(1-2): 83-108Zharkevich I. 2019. Money and blood: Remittances as a substance of relatedness in transnational families in Nepal. American Anthropologist 121(4): 884-896
Caste IJodhka S.S. 2017. Caste in contemporary India. London: Routledge, pp. 1-182010. Seven prevalent misconceptions about India’s caste system. In D.P. Mines and S. Lamb (eds.) Everyday life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 153-154TBA
Caste IIMichelutti L. 2004. ‘We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians’: Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town. Contributions to Indian sociology 38 (1-2): 43-71Gorringe H. 2008.The caste of the nation: Untouchability and citizenship in South India. Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 42(1): 123-4919/10 – 13:15-14:45
Education IAhearn L.M. 2004. Literacy, power, and agency: Love letters and development in Nepal. Language and Education 18(4): 305-316Del Franco N. 2010. Aspirations and self‐hood: Exploring the meaning of higher secondary education for girl college students in rural Bangladesh. Compare 40(2): 147-1659/11 – 13:15-14:45
Education IICiotti M. 2006. ‘In the past we were a bit “Chamar”’: Education as a self- and community engineering process in northern India. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 12: 899-916Khurshid A. 2017. Does education empower women? The regulated empowerment of parhi likhi women in Pakistan. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 48(3): 25-26816/11 – 13:15-14:45
Gender IAlter J. 1997. Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in north India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3): 275-298Nahar P. and Richters A. 2011. Suffering of childless women in Bangladesh: The intersection of social identities of gender and class. Anthropology & Medicine 18(3): 327-33823/11 – 13:15-14:45
Gender IIHossain A. 2012. Beyond emasculation: Being Muslim and becoming hijra in South Asia. Asian Studies Review 36(4): 495-513Zaman M.F. 2019. Segregated from the city: Women’s spaces in Islamic movements in Pakistan. City & Society 31(1): 55-7630/11 – 13:15-14:45
Youth ILiechty M. 2010. “Out here in Kathmandu”: Youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal. In D.P. Mines and S Lamb (eds.) Everyday life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 40-49Osella C. and Osella F. 1998. Friendship and flirting: Micropolitics in Kerala, South India. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(2): 189-2067/12 – 13:15-14:45
Youth IICiotti M. 2011. Remaking traditional sociality, ephemeral friendships and enduring political alliances: ‘State-made’ Dalit youth in rural northern Indian society. Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 59: 19-32Tyagi A. and Sen A. 2020. Love-jihad (Muslim sexual seduction) and ched-chad (sexual harassment): Hindu nationalist discourses and the ideal/deviant urban citizen in India. Gender, Place & Culture 27(1): 104-12511/01 – 13:15-14:45
MarriageCiotti M. 2010. ‘The bourgeois woman and the half-naked one’: Or the Indian nation's contradictions personified. Modern Asian Studies 4: 785-815Fuller C. J. and Narasimhan H. 2013. Marriage, education, and employment among Tamil Brahman women in South India, 1891–2010. Modern Asian Studies 47(1): 53-8418/01 – 13:15-14:45
MigrationSimpson E. 2003. Migration and Islamic reform in a port town of western India. Contributions to Indian Sociology 37(1-2): 83-108Zharkevich I. 2019. Money and blood: Remittances as a substance of relatedness in transnational families in Nepal. American Anthropologist 121(4): 884-896
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• understand both shared features and internal diversity within South Asia
• identify elements testifying to South Asian societies’ historical transformation
• place South Asian societies within global trends
• make connections between the readings and the media sphere