South Asia Books

New and Published Books

1. The Modern Anthropology of India

   Ethnography, Themes and Theory

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Culturalization of Caste in India

   Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

   By Balmurli Natrajan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

   Traversing the Margins

   By Chad Haines

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern Pakistan. Focusing on this highway, this book provides a unique analysis of the...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

   Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

   Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
6. The City in South Asia

   By James Heitzman

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities

   The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000...

   Published December 21st 2009 by Routledge
7. Gender Pluralism

   Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

   By Michael G. Peletz

   Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
8. Tamil Cinema

   The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

   Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It...

   Published February 24th 2009 by Routledge
9. Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns

   An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India

   By Farhana Ibrahim

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   This book is an anthropological study located along India’s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts,...

   Published December 30th 2008 by Routledge India
10. The Intimate State

    Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

    By Perveez Mody

    Series: Critical Asian Studies

    This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the...

    Published October 23rd 2008 by Routledge India