Anand S Pandian
Biographic Data
| ID | 2465691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anand S Pandian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anand S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pandian |
| SIGNATURE | PANDIAN A S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Possible Anthropology
In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anth…
Crooked Stalks
Anand Pandian's "Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India" explores the complex relationship between agricultural practice, moral character, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu, South India. Focusing on the cultivation of kavalai, a variety of dryland paddy, Pandian examines how farmers' embodied knowledge and skillful manipulation of the crop's precarious growth are seen as reflecting and shaping their moral virtues. The book argues that…
Predatory Care
Taking the hunt as both metaphor of rule and political practice, this paper compares the predatory exercises of two imperial formations in India: the late British Raj and the sixteenth-century Mughal empire. The British pursuit of man-eaters confronted feline terror with sovereign might, securing the bodies and hearts of resistant subjects through spectacles of responsible force. The Mughal hunt, on the other hand, took unruly nobles and chieftai…
Predatory Care
Taking the hunt as both metaphor of rule and political practice, this paper compares the predatory exercises of two imperial formations in India: the late British Raj and the sixteenth-century Mughal empire. The British pursuit of man-eaters confronted feline terror with sovereign might, securing the bodies and hearts of resistant subjects through spectacles of responsible force. The Mughal hunt, on the other hand, took unruly nobles and chieftai…
A Possible Anthropology
In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anth…
Crooked Stalks
Anand Pandian's "Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India" explores the complex relationship between agricultural practice, moral character, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu, South India. Focusing on the cultivation of kavalai, a variety of dryland paddy, Pandian examines how farmers' embodied knowledge and skillful manipulation of the crop's precarious growth are seen as reflecting and shaping their moral virtues. The book argues that…
Predatory Care
Taking the hunt as both metaphor of rule and political practice, this paper compares the predatory exercises of two imperial formations in India: the late British Raj and the sixteenth-century Mughal empire. The British pursuit of man-eaters confronted feline terror with sovereign might, securing the bodies and hearts of resistant subjects through spectacles of responsible force. The Mughal hunt, on the other hand, took unruly nobles and chieftai…
Crooked Stalks
Anand Pandian's "Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India" explores the complex relationship between agricultural practice, moral character, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu, South India. Focusing on the cultivation of kavalai, a variety of dryland paddy, Pandian examines how farmers' embodied knowledge and skillful manipulation of the crop's precarious growth are seen as reflecting and shaping their moral virtues. The book argues that…
A Possible Anthropology
In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anth…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1765-1947 (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work) · Agriculture, economic aspects (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)