Rita Brara
Biographic Data
| ID | 136709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Brara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Brara |
| SIGNATURE | BRARA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Social Life of Water
Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices en…
River Rights: Currents, Undercurrents and Planetary Vistas
This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal …
Edgeways Logic: The Space and Language of In-betweenness in New Delhi’s Roadside Shrines
This article focuses on the vernacular spaces of roadside tombs—or mazaars—of anonymous saints (commonly referred to as ‘Zinda Pir Baba’) in the heart of the contemporary Indian capital, New Delhi. These mazaars are located along the megacity's main roads and constitute a shared space where Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs perform rituals in ways that do not classify or identify them as members of rival religious communities. The custodians of grave-sh…
Discussant’s comment I: Give-and-take of knowledge exchanges: Comments on ‘What’s in an argument?’
Introduction: What might we mean by the Anthropocene
T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.' (Michel Foucault 1977: 27
Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol
Shaping Land Rights: Tenurial Class, Lineage, and Gender in Malerkotla, India
The subject of women's rights and title to land has, once again, assumed center stage. In the wake of concerns about the feminization of rural poverty, the question of land rights for women is pressing. This paper delineates the differential modes and implications of self-acquiring and inheriting arable lands within the tenurial classes of the former princely state of Malerkotla in the Sangrur district of Punjab, India. It examines the pattern of…
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009
Why a Cousin Becomes a Spouse. Elementary, says Levi-Strauss: A Tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss from India and Vistas of the Road Ahead
This paper recapitulates Claude Levi-Strauss' distinctive contribution to our understanding of cousin marriage and its refinements in the context of India. Going beyond Levi-Strauss' own framework, it argues, first, that incest taboos draw their strength from religious injunctions. From this perspective, the understanding of Muslim kinship in north India would want to include parallel-as well as cross-cousins within the elementary structure of ma…
Village Commons and the Public Sphere
This chapter comprises a brief, eco-historical account of the emergence of a public sphere in the villages of Lachhmangarh region. The chapter outlines the constitution and composition of the official statutory village council (gram panchayat) and the informal committee of ‘big men’ or ‘spokesmen’ (mukhias). Further, the functioning of the informal committee in relation to the village commons is investigated. The informal committee in the village…
Shifting landscapes: The making and remaking of village commons in India
In the time of trees and sorrows: Nature, power, and memory in Rajasthan - Ann Grodzins Gold & Bhoju Ram Gujar
Kinship and the Political Order: The Afghan Sherwani Chiefs of Malerkotla (1454-1947)
Etude des pratiques de la parente dans le contexte musulman et dans l'ordre politique pre-colonial chez les dirigeants de l'Etat princier de Malerkotla entre 1454 et 1947. Apres une description du contexte ethnographique et politique de cet Etat, l'A. presente les differentes identites de ces dirigeants qui se considerent comme musulmans, afghans (« Jaat / kaum »), membres d'un clan (« got »), membres d'un patrilignage (« biradiri ») et membres d…
Why a Cousin Becomes a Spouse. Elementary, says Levi-Strauss: A Tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss from India and Vistas of the Road Ahead
This paper recapitulates Claude Levi-Strauss' distinctive contribution to our understanding of cousin marriage and its refinements in the context of India. Going beyond Levi-Strauss' own framework, it argues, first, that incest taboos draw their strength from religious injunctions. From this perspective, the understanding of Muslim kinship in north India would want to include parallel-as well as cross-cousins within the elementary structure of ma…
Kinship and the Political Order: The Afghan Sherwani Chiefs of Malerkotla (1454-1947)
Etude des pratiques de la parente dans le contexte musulman et dans l'ordre politique pre-colonial chez les dirigeants de l'Etat princier de Malerkotla entre 1454 et 1947. Apres une description du contexte ethnographique et politique de cet Etat, l'A. presente les differentes identites de ces dirigeants qui se considerent comme musulmans, afghans (« Jaat / kaum »), membres d'un clan (« got »), membres d'un patrilignage (« biradiri ») et membres d…
Kinship and the Political Order: The Afghan Sherwani Chiefs of Malerkotla (1454-1947)
Etude des pratiques de la parente dans le contexte musulman et dans l'ordre politique pre-colonial chez les dirigeants de l'Etat princier de Malerkotla entre 1454 et 1947. Apres une description du contexte ethnographique et politique de cet Etat, l'A. presente les differentes identites de ces dirigeants qui se considerent comme musulmans, afghans (« Jaat / kaum »), membres d'un clan (« got »), membres d'un patrilignage (« biradiri ») et membres d…
Village Commons and the Public Sphere
This chapter comprises a brief, eco-historical account of the emergence of a public sphere in the villages of Lachhmangarh region. The chapter outlines the constitution and composition of the official statutory village council (gram panchayat) and the informal committee of ‘big men’ or ‘spokesmen’ (mukhias). Further, the functioning of the informal committee in relation to the village commons is investigated. The informal committee in the village…
Shifting landscapes: The making and remaking of village commons in India
In the time of trees and sorrows: Nature, power, and memory in Rajasthan - Ann Grodzins Gold & Bhoju Ram Gujar
Why a Cousin Becomes a Spouse. Elementary, says Levi-Strauss: A Tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss from India and Vistas of the Road Ahead
This paper recapitulates Claude Levi-Strauss' distinctive contribution to our understanding of cousin marriage and its refinements in the context of India. Going beyond Levi-Strauss' own framework, it argues, first, that incest taboos draw their strength from religious injunctions. From this perspective, the understanding of Muslim kinship in north India would want to include parallel-as well as cross-cousins within the elementary structure of ma…
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009
Shaping Land Rights: Tenurial Class, Lineage, and Gender in Malerkotla, India
The subject of women's rights and title to land has, once again, assumed center stage. In the wake of concerns about the feminization of rural poverty, the question of land rights for women is pressing. This paper delineates the differential modes and implications of self-acquiring and inheriting arable lands within the tenurial classes of the former princely state of Malerkotla in the Sangrur district of Punjab, India. It examines the pattern of…
Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol
Discussant’s comment I: Give-and-take of knowledge exchanges: Comments on ‘What’s in an argument?’
Introduction: What might we mean by the Anthropocene
T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.' (Michel Foucault 1977: 27
The Social Life of Water
Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices en…
River Rights: Currents, Undercurrents and Planetary Vistas
This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal …
Edgeways Logic: The Space and Language of In-betweenness in New Delhi’s Roadside Shrines
This article focuses on the vernacular spaces of roadside tombs—or mazaars—of anonymous saints (commonly referred to as ‘Zinda Pir Baba’) in the heart of the contemporary Indian capital, New Delhi. These mazaars are located along the megacity's main roads and constitute a shared space where Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs perform rituals in ways that do not classify or identify them as members of rival religious communities. The custodians of grave-sh…
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