B Singh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 47983 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Singh |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Singh |
| FIRMA | SINGH B |
| AFILIACIONES | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8877-3563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Law as a vocation
Jane Austen’s Spectrum of Ideas
Austin sought to focus on key themes that divide a particular class, such as money, political position, and descent. In addition, the author considered how these social issues determined the fate of the protagonist of her novel. For example, in pride and prejudice, Austin tried to explain the entire system of primogeniture, which was one of Bennett's family's major problems. The most important issue was the marital issue of the daughters. Primoge…
Development of a Backhand Skill Test for Badminton Players
This research explores the development of a comprehensive test to assess backhand shot skills in badminton. Initially inspired by a personal shift from track and field to badminton during undergraduate studies at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, the study focuses on the influence of legendary players, particularly Taufik Hidayat’s backhand technique. The research aims to design a standardized test that evalua…
Teaching social theory under repressive regimes
A decolonial birth for anthropology
What good is anthropology?" Rather than accepting a predetermined notion of the good, I ask, What ancestral spirits animate anthropology as a vocation? In pursuing this question, I turn to the inaugural issue of American Ethnologist, which, I suggest, expresses an anthropological spirit readable via Lévi-Strauss and Rousseau. I examine how this spirit was expressed in other parts of the world, such as the first generation of postcolonial anthropo…
Steps to a Global Thought
What Comes After Postcolonial Theory
The contagion of mental illness
In this article, an anthropologist and a psychiatrist examine a Sufi shrine-based concept of affliction known as asrat (an 'effect' in Hindi-Urdu, 'difficulty' in Arabic) and related practices of healing in urban north India. Rather than being located in an individual body, asrat afflictions are shared, most often within a household or kinship group. Through surveys, clinical assessments, and ethnographic work, we track three different ways in wh…
Na sua escrita eu sou existida
Neste ensaio, tento sugerir uma forma não teleológica de ler a história da antropologia, situando o livro de Veena Das Textures of the ordinary, de 2020, em relação a suas obras anteriores, começando por Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual, de 1977. Em vez de um movimento teleológico do estruturalismo ao "pós-estruturalismo" ou a um trabalho "autorreflexivo", aponto para a continuidade e transfiguração dos conceitos de estr…
In Your Writing I Am Existed
In this essay I try to suggest a non-teleological way of reading the history of anthropology, by placing Veena Das's Textures of the ordinary (2020) in relation to her previous books, beginning with Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual (1977). Rather than a teleological movement from structuralism to "post-structuralism" or "self-reflexive" work, I point to the continuation and transfiguration of the concepts of structure an…
Can a Neighborhood Fall Sick? Opioid Addiction, Collective Violence and Currents of Death in Contemporary India
Opioid abuse is an increasingly global phenomenon. Rather than assuming it to be a uniformly global or neoliberal pathology, how might we better understand comparative and locally specific dimensions of opioid addiction? Working with neighborhoods as a unit of analysis, this article analyzes the striking differences between patterns of addiction and violence in two proximate and seemingly similar urban poor neighborhoods in Delhi, India. Rather t…
Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy
An uncritical encounter between anthropology and psychiatry
In what ways do two bodies of knowledge meet? Anthropology and psychiatry most often meet in a mood of mutual suspicion, the danger of which is that each confronts (or avoids) the other as a straw man. In this introduction I describe a refreshingly different encounter in which a group of psychiatrists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi respond to an anthropological text, Veena Das's 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty', w…
Ethnobotany of medicinal plants used by the Zeliangrong ethnic group of Manipur, northeast India
Anthropological investigations of vitality
In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament-a return to a once familiar place like a field site after a significant gap of time-this article argues that in ways ranging from the everyday question "How are you?" to the familiar research tool of the household survey, we are already implicated in the study of vitality. Rather than a precise definition of vitality, this article offers the idea of …
Depression
Portrait
Aftermath and amnesia in Gujarat, India (Hurst, 2013)
A joyful history of anthropology
Many of us, in different parts of the world, face the responsibility of teaching the history of anthropology. In what ways do we narrate this history? While there are differences in styles of teaching across cultures and contexts, there are shared assumptions that we seek to challenge, for instance, the history of anthropological thought conceived of as a teleological parade of "isms," each one outmoded by its successor, or an Oedipal sense of "p…
On the Killing and Killability of Animals
In this article we explore particular sacred and profane forms in which animals are killed in contemporary India. Taking up religious and secular, rural and urban, industrial and domestic instances from our fieldwork, we examine the affects, doubts, pleasures, cruelties and forms of indifference expressed by our ethnographic interlocutors while witnessing or executing the death of animals. Rather than indicting such acts and emotions, we emphasiz…
Poverty and the Quest for Life
In Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh draws on years of fieldwork in rural India to offer a compelling new interpretation of poverty. He argues that poverty is not simply a lack of material resources, but a complex and multi-faceted experience that shapes people's aspirations, relationships, and understandings of the world. Singh focuses on the lives of low-caste villagers in Uttar Pradesh, exploring how they navigate the challenges…
How Concepts Make the World Look Different
The Headless Horseman of Central India
Building on recent anthropological discussions on sovereignty and life, I examine the political theologies of Thakur baba, a minor sovereign deity in central India. How might we understand spirits and deities as cohabitants with the living? Following Gilles Deleuze, I set out the idea of “varying thresholds of life.” How do we conceptualize relations of power between these thresholds? Engaging Thakur baba's capacity to harm and to bless, I show h…
Japan's reconceptualization of national security
Japan has steadily extended its military reach from a domestic zone of defense against territorial invasion in the late 1950s, through regional security policy in the late 1970s to what has now become a globally scaled military role. This re-expansion is perceived by some as evidence of revived militaristic ambitions, and by others as subservience to the US global strategy. However, taking the cue from Japan's 2004 National Defence Programme Guid…
Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism
In what ways do potentially hostile neighboring groups find a place in each other's moral aspirations? I analyze the arrival of a "new" god, the oral-epic deity Tejaji, in the villages of Shahbad (Rajasthan, India) and the modes of relatedness this divine migration expresses between neighboring castes and tribes. How do we conceptualize relations between neighbors? I set out the idea of "agonistic intimacy" as a way of engaging the copresence of …
Aadamkhor Haseena (The Man-Eating Beauty) and the anthropology of a moment
In this article I trace certain related trajectories: the emergence and possible disappearance of the cinematic form of the soft-porn 'morning show'; the waxing and waning arrangements of certain spaces in the city of Delhi, in particular cinema halls in Old Delhi; and lives enmeshed in this unstable itinerant matrix of cinema and the city. In confronting these situations of permanent mobility, we are led to the conceptual issue of time. Do the h…
Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism
In what ways do potentially hostile neighboring groups find a place in each other's moral aspirations? I analyze the arrival of a "new" god, the oral-epic deity Tejaji, in the villages of Shahbad (Rajasthan, India) and the modes of relatedness this divine migration expresses between neighboring castes and tribes. How do we conceptualize relations between neighbors? I set out the idea of "agonistic intimacy" as a way of engaging the copresence of …
Poverty and the Quest for Life
In Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh draws on years of fieldwork in rural India to offer a compelling new interpretation of poverty. He argues that poverty is not simply a lack of material resources, but a complex and multi-faceted experience that shapes people's aspirations, relationships, and understandings of the world. Singh focuses on the lives of low-caste villagers in Uttar Pradesh, exploring how they navigate the challenges…
The Headless Horseman of Central India
Building on recent anthropological discussions on sovereignty and life, I examine the political theologies of Thakur baba, a minor sovereign deity in central India. How might we understand spirits and deities as cohabitants with the living? Following Gilles Deleuze, I set out the idea of “varying thresholds of life.” How do we conceptualize relations of power between these thresholds? Engaging Thakur baba's capacity to harm and to bless, I show h…
On the Killing and Killability of Animals
In this article we explore particular sacred and profane forms in which animals are killed in contemporary India. Taking up religious and secular, rural and urban, industrial and domestic instances from our fieldwork, we examine the affects, doubts, pleasures, cruelties and forms of indifference expressed by our ethnographic interlocutors while witnessing or executing the death of animals. Rather than indicting such acts and emotions, we emphasiz…
European Agency Houses in Bengal
A joyful history of anthropology
Many of us, in different parts of the world, face the responsibility of teaching the history of anthropology. In what ways do we narrate this history? While there are differences in styles of teaching across cultures and contexts, there are shared assumptions that we seek to challenge, for instance, the history of anthropological thought conceived of as a teleological parade of "isms," each one outmoded by its successor, or an Oedipal sense of "p…
Aadamkhor Haseena (The Man-Eating Beauty) and the anthropology of a moment
In this article I trace certain related trajectories: the emergence and possible disappearance of the cinematic form of the soft-porn 'morning show'; the waxing and waning arrangements of certain spaces in the city of Delhi, in particular cinema halls in Old Delhi; and lives enmeshed in this unstable itinerant matrix of cinema and the city. In confronting these situations of permanent mobility, we are led to the conceptual issue of time. Do the h…
Can a Neighborhood Fall Sick? Opioid Addiction, Collective Violence and Currents of Death in Contemporary India
Opioid abuse is an increasingly global phenomenon. Rather than assuming it to be a uniformly global or neoliberal pathology, how might we better understand comparative and locally specific dimensions of opioid addiction? Working with neighborhoods as a unit of analysis, this article analyzes the striking differences between patterns of addiction and violence in two proximate and seemingly similar urban poor neighborhoods in Delhi, India. Rather t…
A decolonial birth for anthropology
What good is anthropology?" Rather than accepting a predetermined notion of the good, I ask, What ancestral spirits animate anthropology as a vocation? In pursuing this question, I turn to the inaugural issue of American Ethnologist, which, I suggest, expresses an anthropological spirit readable via Lévi-Strauss and Rousseau. I examine how this spirit was expressed in other parts of the world, such as the first generation of postcolonial anthropo…
Anthropological investigations of vitality
In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament-a return to a once familiar place like a field site after a significant gap of time-this article argues that in ways ranging from the everyday question "How are you?" to the familiar research tool of the household survey, we are already implicated in the study of vitality. Rather than a precise definition of vitality, this article offers the idea of …
Abnormal treatment behaviour
The contagion of mental illness
In this article, an anthropologist and a psychiatrist examine a Sufi shrine-based concept of affliction known as asrat (an 'effect' in Hindi-Urdu, 'difficulty' in Arabic) and related practices of healing in urban north India. Rather than being located in an individual body, asrat afflictions are shared, most often within a household or kinship group. Through surveys, clinical assessments, and ethnographic work, we track three different ways in wh…
In Your Writing I Am Existed
In this essay I try to suggest a non-teleological way of reading the history of anthropology, by placing Veena Das's Textures of the ordinary (2020) in relation to her previous books, beginning with Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual (1977). Rather than a teleological movement from structuralism to "post-structuralism" or "self-reflexive" work, I point to the continuation and transfiguration of the concepts of structure an…
Depression
Japan's reconceptualization of national security
Japan has steadily extended its military reach from a domestic zone of defense against territorial invasion in the late 1950s, through regional security policy in the late 1970s to what has now become a globally scaled military role. This re-expansion is perceived by some as evidence of revived militaristic ambitions, and by others as subservience to the US global strategy. However, taking the cue from Japan's 2004 National Defence Programme Guid…
European Agency Houses in Bengal
Abnormal treatment behaviour
Hepatoprotective effects of Eclipta alba on subcellular levels in rats
Effect of Kombucha tea on chromate(VI)-induced oxidative stress in albino rats
Documentaries and Change
Anti-inflammatory activity of ‘TAF’ an active fraction from the plant Barleria prionitis Linn
Networks Actual and Potential
Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics Richard Baxstrom (bio), Naveeda Khan (bio), Deborah Poole (bio), and Bhrigupati Singh (bio) The months leading up to the U.S. incursion into Iraq in 2003 witnessed one of the largest protest movements in world history, unprecedented in its international scope, with rallies being held simultaneously in over forty countries across four continent…
Reinhabiting Civil Disobedience
Can the concept of political theology be retrieved within the wider tradition of “moral perfectionism”, of imagining philosophy as a way of life? This chapter examines this strand of thought, which runs from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to Stanley Cavell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Mahatma Gandhi. It argues that Gandhi's way of “reinhabiting”, more than simply reformulating or resituating, Thoreau's concept of civil d…
Narrating Injustice
As a theoretical starting point, this article suggests a shift from media-as-text to media object-as-utterance (in the sense of the term as worked out by Bakhtin and Voloshinov). This is done to move away from the production/consumption dichotomy, a framework on which most media studies analyses are predicated. From here, the story is told of Injustice, a documentary that found itself in unusual circumstances at the time of its release in Britain…
Hepatoprotective potential of Aloe barbadensis Mill. against carbon tetrachloride induced hepatotoxicity
Aadamkhor Haseena (The Man-Eating Beauty) and the anthropology of a moment
In this article I trace certain related trajectories: the emergence and possible disappearance of the cinematic form of the soft-porn 'morning show'; the waxing and waning arrangements of certain spaces in the city of Delhi, in particular cinema halls in Old Delhi; and lives enmeshed in this unstable itinerant matrix of cinema and the city. In confronting these situations of permanent mobility, we are led to the conceptual issue of time. Do the h…
Japan's reconceptualization of national security
Japan has steadily extended its military reach from a domestic zone of defense against territorial invasion in the late 1950s, through regional security policy in the late 1970s to what has now become a globally scaled military role. This re-expansion is perceived by some as evidence of revived militaristic ambitions, and by others as subservience to the US global strategy. However, taking the cue from Japan's 2004 National Defence Programme Guid…
Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism
In what ways do potentially hostile neighboring groups find a place in each other's moral aspirations? I analyze the arrival of a "new" god, the oral-epic deity Tejaji, in the villages of Shahbad (Rajasthan, India) and the modes of relatedness this divine migration expresses between neighboring castes and tribes. How do we conceptualize relations between neighbors? I set out the idea of "agonistic intimacy" as a way of engaging the copresence of …
The Headless Horseman of Central India
Building on recent anthropological discussions on sovereignty and life, I examine the political theologies of Thakur baba, a minor sovereign deity in central India. How might we understand spirits and deities as cohabitants with the living? Following Gilles Deleuze, I set out the idea of “varying thresholds of life.” How do we conceptualize relations of power between these thresholds? Engaging Thakur baba's capacity to harm and to bless, I show h…
How Concepts Make the World Look Different
On the Killing and Killability of Animals
In this article we explore particular sacred and profane forms in which animals are killed in contemporary India. Taking up religious and secular, rural and urban, industrial and domestic instances from our fieldwork, we examine the affects, doubts, pleasures, cruelties and forms of indifference expressed by our ethnographic interlocutors while witnessing or executing the death of animals. Rather than indicting such acts and emotions, we emphasiz…
Poverty and the Quest for Life
In Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh draws on years of fieldwork in rural India to offer a compelling new interpretation of poverty. He argues that poverty is not simply a lack of material resources, but a complex and multi-faceted experience that shapes people's aspirations, relationships, and understandings of the world. Singh focuses on the lives of low-caste villagers in Uttar Pradesh, exploring how they navigate the challenges…
Portrait
Aftermath and amnesia in Gujarat, India (Hurst, 2013)
A joyful history of anthropology
Many of us, in different parts of the world, face the responsibility of teaching the history of anthropology. In what ways do we narrate this history? While there are differences in styles of teaching across cultures and contexts, there are shared assumptions that we seek to challenge, for instance, the history of anthropological thought conceived of as a teleological parade of "isms," each one outmoded by its successor, or an Oedipal sense of "p…
Depression
Anthropological investigations of vitality
In what ways do anthropologists study vitality? Located in a familiar anthropological predicament-a return to a once familiar place like a field site after a significant gap of time-this article argues that in ways ranging from the everyday question "How are you?" to the familiar research tool of the household survey, we are already implicated in the study of vitality. Rather than a precise definition of vitality, this article offers the idea of …
Ethnobotany of medicinal plants used by the Zeliangrong ethnic group of Manipur, northeast India
Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy
An uncritical encounter between anthropology and psychiatry
In what ways do two bodies of knowledge meet? Anthropology and psychiatry most often meet in a mood of mutual suspicion, the danger of which is that each confronts (or avoids) the other as a straw man. In this introduction I describe a refreshingly different encounter in which a group of psychiatrists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi respond to an anthropological text, Veena Das's 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty', w…
In Your Writing I Am Existed
In this essay I try to suggest a non-teleological way of reading the history of anthropology, by placing Veena Das's Textures of the ordinary (2020) in relation to her previous books, beginning with Structure and cognition: aspects of Hindu caste and ritual (1977). Rather than a teleological movement from structuralism to "post-structuralism" or "self-reflexive" work, I point to the continuation and transfiguration of the concepts of structure an…
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