Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics including the lived experience of India's caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction. Historicity, Power Relations and Visuality as Perspectives on Asian Contexts
- 1. Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
- 2. Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives
- 3. At Home in the World of Work: Women, Work and Care in Late Socialist Vietnam
- 4. Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the Moral Citizen in Late Socialist Vietnam
- 5. How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today’s Vietnam
- 6. Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene
- 7. Reflections on Caste in South Asia
- 8. Listening to Asian Voices in the Postcolonial Age
- Conclusion. Morality, Achievement, Modernity, Comparison
- Index
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