R S Khare
Biographic Data
| ID | 31558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R S Khare |
| GIVEN NAMES | R S |
| FAMILY NAME | Khare |
| SIGNATURE | KHARE R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
M. K. Gandhi, Our Moral Action Compass
This paper discusses M. K. Gandhi’s selected short writings of the early and mid-twentieth century by topics, themes and some major timely issues. Gandhi’s April 1933 advice to his readers, spelling his central moral–spiritual experiential truths, frames this writing. In an apperceptive view of Gandhi, he morally, spiritually, and socially ‘contextualized’ and ‘nuanced’ his direct, concise writings. These expressed his life’s core: ‘truth and non…
McGill, Kenneth
Anthropos , Seite 687 - 688
Changing India-West Cultural Dialectics
The changing profiles of the India-West cultural dialogue are pursued over the last sixty years. After discussing French anthropologist Louis Dumont's mid-twentieth century "binary opposition" between India and the West as the starting anthropological point of departure, I turn to Wilhelm Halbfass, a German comparative philosopher, for a better differentiated treatment of the changing India-West cultural dialogues and dialectics. During the last …
Anthropology, India, and Academic Self
Fast Food/Slow Food
Caste, hierarchy, and individualism
FOREWORD (T.N. Louis Dumont and the Study of Society in India (T.N. Madan) 2. A Theory of 'Pure' Hierarchy (R.S. Khare) 3. Elementary Structure of Caste (Veena Das and J.P.S. Uberoi) 4. The Comparison of Civilizatations: Louis Dumont on India and the West (T.N. Madan) SECTION II: DIFFERENT EVALUATIONS 5. Some Reflections on the Nature of Caste Hierarchy (M.N. Srinivas) 6. On Individualism and Equality: Reply to Louis Dumont (Andre Beteille) 7. Co…
A Time for Tea
Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Piya Chatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 417 pp
Colonial Subjects
Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology. Peter Pels and Oscar Salemink, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. vii. 364 pp., index
Postcolonial Developments
Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Akhil Gupta. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 410 pp
Cultural Diversity and Social Discontent
The issue of 'right to food' among the Hindus
The paper starts with a comparative discussion of food in Hindu religion and law and in Indian democratic polity, examining the general question whether the Hindu system possesses at all a substantive cultural basis of its own for addressing the goal of 'food-accessibility-for-all'. Though democracy demands egalitarian 'public policy' and 'public action programmes' for food for all its citizens, the Hindu system frames the issue within its langua…
A Paradoxical Gift of Memory
Indian untouchable women challenge the anthropologist to decipher what they orally convey about their sense of the "living past," the troubling present, and uncharted future. There has been scant written record of these women's lives. Nevertheless they can take the ethnographer on a journey of recollections and verities that they experienced distinctly. The journey is also a mental picture in which "living memory," a "living past," and a "do‐it‐y…
Dava, Daktar, and Dua
The Body, Sensoria, and Self of the Powerless
The Body, Sensoria, and Self of the Powerless: Remembering/“Re-Membering” Indian Untouchable Women R. S. Khare (bio) To Professor A. K. Ramanujan 1 I. “Allow Us to Speak for Ourselves” My anthropological encounters with urban Indian Untouchable women 2 during the eighties were slow and difficult. I distinctly remember how during a discussion an Untouchable woman’s simple declarative sentence, the one which helps me start this essay, had prompted …
Food, Self, Society, and Nation in JapanRice as Self
The Seen and the Unseen
L'A. propose de mettre a jour ce que recouvrent les classifications de l'hindouisme en tant que categories de la connaissance. Il caracterise un « raisonnement culturel » propre a l'hindouisme qui concerne autant la classification sociale que les distinctions operees dans la vie quotidienne. Les conceptions developpees au sein de cette culture sont le reflet de relations variables suivant le contexte, subtiles ou grossieres, visibles ou invisible…
The Eternal food
The Other's Double. The Anthropologist's Bracketed Self
urgency as the Western liberalism of the sixties and seventies declined and the minorities and the postcolonial non-West demanded recognition of their own political presence. However, our subject, the Other or not-us seems to be as closely intertwined with our knowledge (cultural, historical, and political) of ourselves as of others living at other places and in other times.2 During most of this century, a period in which saw the rise of scientif…
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. Margaret TRAWICK
First We Are People
Writing Within
Indian Sociology and the Cultural Other
The Bhopal Tragedy
La tragedie de Bhopal et la pollution qu'elle a entrainee, consideree dans le contexte de la conception indienne de la pollution et dans celui des risques inherents aux choix industriels et au developpement technologique
Shared Wealth and Symbol
Food safety at home
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
Dava, Daktar, and Dua
Culture and Reality
The Eternal food
As Untouchable as Himself
Writing Within
Indian Sociology and the Cultural Other
A Biological Comparison of Eight Endogamous Groups of the Same Rank [and Comments and Replies]
In order to examine the hypothesis that some Indian groups formerly called "sub-castes" (with the implication of common origin) are in fact separate groups which at different times and places achieved the same social rank, members of eight endogamous groups, all called Brahmins, in Maharashtra were studied for morphological and genetic characters. The statistics developed by Sanghvi-T and G -and an additional one, S (somatoscopic difference) base…
The Changing Brahmans
Postcolonial Developments
Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Akhil Gupta. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 410 pp
The Other's Double. The Anthropologist's Bracketed Self
urgency as the Western liberalism of the sixties and seventies declined and the minorities and the postcolonial non-West demanded recognition of their own political presence. However, our subject, the Other or not-us seems to be as closely intertwined with our knowledge (cultural, historical, and political) of ourselves as of others living at other places and in other times.2 During most of this century, a period in which saw the rise of scientif…
Food, Society and Culture
Home and Office
Recently Singer (1966: 497-505), while reviewing a book on economic development and Hinduism, underlined the necessity of recognizing the 'deficiencies' of the hypothetico-deductive method in studying social change in India. He alluded to Weber's thesis (ideal-typical relations of the Hindu 'ethic' to economic development) and its possible 'distortions' under this approach, especially if applied 'as a basis for quick diagnoses of the ideological …
Folk Medicine in a North Indian Village
The Indian peasant village represents a combination and partial integration of diverse elements of Indian civilization. The village draws on traditions both above and below it for cultural development. These characteristics of village society also apply to the conceptualization of diseases and their treatment: that is to say, these notions are derived from both urban and tribal traditions. This paper will consider the above assumptions with refer…
The Seen and the Unseen
L'A. propose de mettre a jour ce que recouvrent les classifications de l'hindouisme en tant que categories de la connaissance. Il caracterise un « raisonnement culturel » propre a l'hindouisme qui concerne autant la classification sociale que les distinctions operees dans la vie quotidienne. Les conceptions developpees au sein de cette culture sont le reflet de relations variables suivant le contexte, subtiles ou grossieres, visibles ou invisible…
Encompassing and Encompassed
Review Article| August 01 1971 “Encompassing and Encompassed”: A Deductive Theory of Caste System Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. By Louis Dumont (Translated by Mark Sainsbury). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. xxii, 386 pp. Appendix, Diagrams, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. R. S. Khare R. S. Khare R. S. Khare is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Sear…
Prediction of Death Among the Kanya- Kubja Brahmans
A Case of Anomalous Values in Indian Civilization
Indian philosophical thought has always attempted to deal with opposite or binary values. However, when faced with contradictions, social scientists try to analyze the form, meaning and function of opposed values in real social situations. The problem of opposed values becomes difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubj…
Embedded' affinity and consanguineal 'ethos
Indigenous Culture and Lawyer's Law in India
Anthropologists' view of law, as Bohannan (1963: 288) recently summarized, is generally concerned with two aspects: one studies the legal procedures of foreign cultures and discovers and compares inquisitorial and correctional devices, and the other focuses on basic axioms or 'postulates' underlying the stated norms or laws of a society. Bohannan amplifies the scope by noting that not only the 'institutions of counteraction' should be studied but…
The issue of 'right to food' among the Hindus
The paper starts with a comparative discussion of food in Hindu religion and law and in Indian democratic polity, examining the general question whether the Hindu system possesses at all a substantive cultural basis of its own for addressing the goal of 'food-accessibility-for-all'. Though democracy demands egalitarian 'public policy' and 'public action programmes' for food for all its citizens, the Hindu system frames the issue within its langua…
Delivrance et convivialite
Structuralism in India
Hierarchy and Hypergamy
This paper is concerned with an examination of structural interrelationships between hierarchy and hypergamy. As illustrated by the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans of northern India, several elements of intracaste hierarchy-some ancient (gotraj, some medieval (biswa and ank) and some modern (secular economic status)-are found to interrelate directly with the system of intracaste hypergamy. The characteristics of hierarchy and hypergamy follow certain logica…
The Kānya-Kubja Brahmins and Their Caste Organization
The Kānya-Kubja Brahmins and Their Caste Organization
Group Dynamics in a North Indian Village
The concept of faction is not new to the study of the Indian village. Several anthropologists have used the term, but they offer no specific definition or conceptualization of the phenomenon. In general, factions are found where there is a difference in methods or in ends among a number of social groups. It is particularly interesting to look into the working of this social phenomenon in India where social groups are highly structured. Both caste…
Folk Medicine in a North Indian Village
The Indian peasant village represents a combination and partial integration of diverse elements of Indian civilization. The village draws on traditions both above and below it for cultural development. These characteristics of village society also apply to the conceptualization of diseases and their treatment: that is to say, these notions are derived from both urban and tribal traditions. This paper will consider the above assumptions with refer…
An Indian Village's Reaction to Chinese Aggression
Research Article| November 01 1964 An Indian Village's Reaction to Chinese Aggression R. S. Khare R. S. Khare Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1935) 4 (11): 1152–1160. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642666 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Culture Change, Applied Anthropology and Economic Development
A Case of Anomalous Values in Indian Civilization
Indian philosophical thought has always attempted to deal with opposite or binary values. However, when faced with contradictions, social scientists try to analyze the form, meaning and function of opposed values in real social situations. The problem of opposed values becomes difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubj…
Prediction of Death Among the Kanya- Kubja Brahmans
The Aims of Antropology
A Biological Comparison of Eight Endogamous Groups of the Same Rank [and Comments and Replies]
In order to examine the hypothesis that some Indian groups formerly called "sub-castes" (with the implication of common origin) are in fact separate groups which at different times and places achieved the same social rank, members of eight endogamous groups, all called Brahmins, in Maharashtra were studied for morphological and genetic characters. The statistics developed by Sanghvi-T and G -and an additional one, S (somatoscopic difference) base…
On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus
Encompassing and Encompassed
Review Article| August 01 1971 “Encompassing and Encompassed”: A Deductive Theory of Caste System Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. By Louis Dumont (Translated by Mark Sainsbury). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. xxii, 386 pp. Appendix, Diagrams, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. R. S. Khare R. S. Khare R. S. Khare is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Sear…
The Changing Brahmans
Indian Families of the Northwest Coast
Home and Office
Recently Singer (1966: 497-505), while reviewing a book on economic development and Hinduism, underlined the necessity of recognizing the 'deficiencies' of the hypothetico-deductive method in studying social change in India. He alluded to Weber's thesis (ideal-typical relations of the Hindu 'ethic' to economic development) and its possible 'distortions' under this approach, especially if applied 'as a basis for quick diagnoses of the ideological …
Hierarchy and Hypergamy
This paper is concerned with an examination of structural interrelationships between hierarchy and hypergamy. As illustrated by the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans of northern India, several elements of intracaste hierarchy-some ancient (gotraj, some medieval (biswa and ank) and some modern (secular economic status)-are found to interrelate directly with the system of intracaste hypergamy. The characteristics of hierarchy and hypergamy follow certain logica…
Indigenous Culture and Lawyer's Law in India
Anthropologists' view of law, as Bohannan (1963: 288) recently summarized, is generally concerned with two aspects: one studies the legal procedures of foreign cultures and discovers and compares inquisitorial and correctional devices, and the other focuses on basic axioms or 'postulates' underlying the stated norms or laws of a society. Bohannan amplifies the scope by noting that not only the 'institutions of counteraction' should be studied but…
Ethnology
Belief, Language and Experience
The Speaking Tree
Embedded' affinity and consanguineal 'ethos
Reflections on Levels and Structures in Indian Nationalism
From Turbans to Inverted Triangles
Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives. David G. Mandelbaum.Robber Noblement: A Study of the Political System of the Sikh Jats. Joyce Pettigrew.Girl Students in Jaipur: A Study in Attitudes Towards Family Life, Marriage, and Career. Cora Vreede-de Stuers.Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India. Sylvia Vatuk.The Transformation of Sikh Society. Ethne K. Marenco
The Profession
Encounter and Experience
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
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