Ethical Life in South Asia
Autor Anand Pandian, Daud Alien Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253222435
ISBN-10: 0253222435
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253222435
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Cuprins
Introduction / Anand Pandian and Daud AliPart 1. Traditions in Transmission 1. The Subhas.ita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India / Daud Ali; 2. Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tin.n.ai School / Bhavani Raman; 3. Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements / James LaidlawPart 2. Ethics and Modernity 4. Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics / Ritu Birla; 5. The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere / Bernard Bate; 6. Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History / Dipesh ChakrabartyPart 3. Practices of the Self 7. Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics / Charles Hallisey; 8. Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt; 9. Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability / Leela Prasad; 10. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India / Craig JeffreyPart 4. Ethical Lives of Others 11. Living by Dying / Ajay Skaria; 12. Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India / Veena Das; 13. Ethical Publicity / Lawrence CohenList of Contributors; Index
Recenzii
This stimulating and original volume of essays invites the reader to a rewarding engagement with a wide diversity of moral traditions and lived ethical practices in South Asia.... [O]ffers a rich mix of anthropological, historical, and textual analysis and will be of interest to readers of diverse backgrounds.--Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan
Notă biografică
Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India.
Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.
Descriere
Moral thought and ethical practice in South Asia, past and present