The relationship between anthropology and history has been contradictory as also passionate and productive. The two have often displayed mistrust of the other discipline and at other times have underscored their key convergences. Over the last three decades, the interchange between the two
disciplines have acquired a fresh purpose in theoretical and empirical studies. This has resulted in considerations for the history of anthropology and anthropology of history. This collection brings together the terrains and trajectories of the entangling of anthropology and history. It offers to
students and scholars a wide-ranging domain of anthropological and historical endeavour under the rubric of historical anthropology - marking its departures, charting its contexts, exploring its characteristics and tracking its predicaments and possibilities.
Conversations between
anthropology and history have been approached by treating the two as disciplines. It explores formative orientations of anthropology to time and temporality, and of history to culture and tradition. It considers the more recent transformations of anthropology and history. It discusses important
developments in study of pasts and communities, empire and nation, and culture and power in South Asia as part of a wider interplay between anthropology and history. In a nutshell, this volume attempts to open up the terms of historical anthropology.
Preface
Saurabh Dube: Introduction: Anthropology, History, Historical Anthropology
Part 1: Formations
1. Bernard Cohn: Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism
2. Ranajit Guha: Negation
3. K.S. Singh: The Making of a Prophet
4. Paul Greenough: Famine
Part 2:
Genealogies
5. Ravindra Jain: Genealogy and Legend
6. Ishita Banerjee Dube: Reading Time
7. Susan Visvanathan: Reconstructions of the Past
8. Saurabh Dube: A Contested Past
Part 3: Communities
9. Gyanendra Pandey: The Bigoted Julaha
10. Malavika Kasturi:
Rebellion
11. Ajay Skaria: Wildness: Livelihood, Kinship, and Gender
12. Veena Das: Time, Self, and Community
Part 4: Culture and Power
13. Ann G. Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujjar: Shoes
14. Nandini Sundar: The Dialectics of Dussehra
15. K. Sivaramakrishnan: Geographies of
Empire
16. John Kelly: Gaze and Grasp
Part 5: Empire and Nation
17. Peter van Der Veer: The Moral State
18. Nicholas Dirks: The Policing of Tradition
19. Shail Mayaram: Partition and Violence
20. Emma Tarlo: Is Khadi the Solution?
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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Saurabh Dube is a Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, Mexico.
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