Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum): India Tests Social Theory/
By Dipankar Gupta.
- 1st Ed.
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 223p;, xi, 18cm.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Everyday Resistance or Routine Repression? Exaggeration as a Stratagem in Agrarian Conflict. 2. For a Sociology/Anthropology of Illness: Towards a Declineation of Its Disciplinary Specifics. 3. To Transform or to Transmorph: From Totemism to Traffic Lights to Caste. 4. The Metaphors of Culture: Multiculturalism as a Way of Everyday Life. 5. Caste and Politics: Identity over System. 6. Cultural Clash: Ethnic Imagos and Correlative Spaces. 7. Project Modernity: The Significance of Iso-Ontology. 8. Conceptualizing the Public and the Private: Tradition, Modernity and Ethics. Appendix. References. Index. About the Author.