Being Brahmin, being modern : exploring the lives of caste today / Ramesh Bairy T.S.
| Author/creator | Bairy T. S., Ramesh |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description | xi, 357 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Scope and content | "There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today's Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry -- the persona of the 'Brahmin' embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation-contestation and dominance-resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste -- its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become 'subjects' of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self." - - Routledge.com web site. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010317101 |
| ISBN | 9780415585767 |
| ISBN | 0415585767 |
| Stock number | Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DS432.B73 B35 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |