Ursula Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Trust, privacy, deceit and the quality of interpersonal relationships
Bringing the body back into the (social) action. Techniques of the body and the (cultural) imagination
Dans la maniere de traiter le corps, anthropologues et sociologues ne sont pas encore parvenus a depasser les contraintes du dualisme cartesien qu'ils critiquent. Le 'corps' dont ils s'occupent se trouve defini la plupart du temps comme une sorte d'entite inconsistante et socio-culturellement passive diversement 'representee', 'controlee', 'eprouvee', etc. Si les travaux de Mauss laissent entendre d'autres modes de reconnaissance, ceux-ci ne semb…
Men are Real, Women are 'Made up
Beauty therapy as an industry is multi-faceted; as a set of practices it is complex. The beauty industry has been the subject of much critique but comparatively little empirical study. Based upon research with beauty therapists themselves, this article investigates the complex relationship between femininity and beauty. The beauty industry is located within debates about the body and leisure. The growth in the beauty industry is also linked to th…
Look Good, Feel Better
This article is based on research among beauty therapists in two cities. Therapists saw their work less in terms of what it does to make women look better, more in terms of what it does to make women feel better. They described the treatment as offering stress relief and greater self-confidence, but also described the work they do to manage their own emotions in the salon. Beauthy therapy could, therefore, be seen as a form of what Hochschild has…
Alternative Health Practices and Systems
The Silent Subject
Cet article developpe les atouts d'une sociologie des emotions dans l'apprehension d'experiences telles que les accouchements, afin de mieux saisir les differents aspects de la subjectivite des parturientes
Reflexivity, Ethnography and the Professions (Complementary Medicine) Watching You Watching Me Watching You (and Writing about Both of Us)
That reflexivity is a characteristic of high modernity is now a truism, but its ethical and practical implications for field research have not been explored. The article is based on research conducted among complementary medical practitioners, focusing on issues of professionalisation. This research revealed the problematic and permeable nature of boundaries in ethnographic work. For example, in the course of interviews and observation therapists…
What is an Ethnic Group? The View from Social Anthropology
In this paper I shall review some of the ways in which anthropologists have looked at and written about what we now call ethnic groups and ethnicity. I shall argue that the terms in which anthropologists have written about such issues can only to a very limited extent be regarded as a separate, let alone ‘expert’, form of discourse. I shall then examine the implications of this for any kind of dialogue between anthropologists and medical professi…
Demarcation and transformation within homoeopathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
The Healing Bond
Knowledge, Power and Practice
The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy
This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and fa…
Berreman Revisited; Caste and the Comparative Method
In a series of articles and books published in the '60s and 70s, Gerald Berreman argued that the institution of caste is not confined to Hindu India. In particular he drew attention to the similarities between caste in India and race in the United States of America, and drew specific attention to the processes by which deference was exacted by high caste/whites and by which untouchables/blacks devised ways of dealing with demands for deference. T…
Herbal and Magical Medicine
Contextualizing Alternative Medicine
Alors que les anthropologues ont tendance a categoriser les types de sytemes guerisseurs (exotique, marginal et banal..), les medecines alternatives commencent a se renforcer et a s'organiser professionnellement. Les anthropologues devraient donc s'interesser a la relation entre la conception du patient concernant la sante et la maladie ainsi qu'a son attitude en tant que malade: contextualiser la medecine en fonction de l'action du patient serai…
Complementary medicine today
Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine. A Countersystem Analysis (Book)
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor
Ritual Healing in Suburban America/Other Healers
Women's Work, Class, and the Urban Household
This study adds another dimension to the literature on the household, class formation, and urbanization in Third World countries. Women's work, and its contribution to consolidating the position of the household, is examined in detail
Migration as a Household Process
Women, Work and Property in North-West India
Women's Participation in Agriculture in India
Male Bias' in Anthropology
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
Look Good, Feel Better
This article is based on research among beauty therapists in two cities. Therapists saw their work less in terms of what it does to make women look better, more in terms of what it does to make women feel better. They described the treatment as offering stress relief and greater self-confidence, but also described the work they do to manage their own emotions in the salon. Beauthy therapy could, therefore, be seen as a form of what Hochschild has…
Complementary medicine today
The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy
This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and fa…
Demarcation and transformation within homoeopathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
Theodicy and the Doctrine of Karma
Women and Their Affines
In north India, the term ghungat nikalna refers to the practice whereby a woman veils her face from all male affines senior to her own husband. A description of ghungat as practised in Ghanyari, a Himalayan village, is given here. Generally, anthropologists have described ghungat within the context of discussions of household organisation. However, as women extend ghungat to all classificatory and 'courtesy' affines, i.e. to most of the senior me…
Essays on the Caste System
Men are Real, Women are 'Made up
Beauty therapy as an industry is multi-faceted; as a set of practices it is complex. The beauty industry has been the subject of much critique but comparatively little empirical study. Based upon research with beauty therapists themselves, this article investigates the complex relationship between femininity and beauty. The beauty industry is located within debates about the body and leisure. The growth in the beauty industry is also linked to th…
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
Contextualizing Alternative Medicine
Alors que les anthropologues ont tendance a categoriser les types de sytemes guerisseurs (exotique, marginal et banal..), les medecines alternatives commencent a se renforcer et a s'organiser professionnellement. Les anthropologues devraient donc s'interesser a la relation entre la conception du patient concernant la sante et la maladie ainsi qu'a son attitude en tant que malade: contextualiser la medecine en fonction de l'action du patient serai…
The Problem of Village Hinduism
Reflexivity, Ethnography and the Professions (Complementary Medicine) Watching You Watching Me Watching You (and Writing about Both of Us)
That reflexivity is a characteristic of high modernity is now a truism, but its ethical and practical implications for field research have not been explored. The article is based on research conducted among complementary medical practitioners, focusing on issues of professionalisation. This research revealed the problematic and permeable nature of boundaries in ethnographic work. For example, in the course of interviews and observation therapists…
I Give Thee My Daughter
Berreman Revisited; Caste and the Comparative Method
In a series of articles and books published in the '60s and 70s, Gerald Berreman argued that the institution of caste is not confined to Hindu India. In particular he drew attention to the similarities between caste in India and race in the United States of America, and drew specific attention to the processes by which deference was exacted by high caste/whites and by which untouchables/blacks devised ways of dealing with demands for deference. T…
Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village
The author studied a Sikh village rural Punjab for an unspecified length of time 1964-65. From scattered remarks the book, it appear that he worked mostly with individual informants and suffered at least one interruption as a result of the Indo-Pakistan conflict (1965). He was evidently familiar with the spoken and written language used by villagers; neither assistance nor companionship during fieldwork is acknowledged. The behavior of villagers …
Migration as a Household Process
The Healing Bond
Knowledge, Power and Practice
Women's Participation in Agriculture in India
The Immortal Cowherd and the Saintly Carrier
The Silent Subject
Cet article developpe les atouts d'une sociologie des emotions dans l'apprehension d'experiences telles que les accouchements, afin de mieux saisir les differents aspects de la subjectivite des parturientes
Women, Work and Property in North-West India
Extended Review
Public Shrines and Private Interests
Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India
The Immortal Cowherd and the Saintly Carrier
The Problem of Village Hinduism
The Tall Candle
Essays on the Caste System
I Give Thee My Daughter
Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India
Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village
The author studied a Sikh village rural Punjab for an unspecified length of time 1964-65. From scattered remarks the book, it appear that he worked mostly with individual informants and suffered at least one interruption as a result of the Indo-Pakistan conflict (1965). He was evidently familiar with the spoken and written language used by villagers; neither assistance nor companionship during fieldwork is acknowledged. The behavior of villagers …
Theodicy and the Doctrine of Karma
Public Shrines and Private Interests
Extended Review
Inside India Today
Migration From an Indian Village; An Anthropological Approach
In this article it is argued that the 'micro' approach of the anthropologist to the study of rural social structures may contribute to the study of local patterns of migration. Unfortunately, few social anthropologists working in the Indian sub-continent (unlike Africanist anthropologists) have shown much interest in the position of the urban migrant in the rural social structure. Even so, the information available reveals a number of patterns of…
Women and Their Affines
In north India, the term ghungat nikalna refers to the practice whereby a woman veils her face from all male affines senior to her own husband. A description of ghungat as practised in Ghanyari, a Himalayan village, is given here. Generally, anthropologists have described ghungat within the context of discussions of household organisation. However, as women extend ghungat to all classificatory and 'courtesy' affines, i.e. to most of the senior me…
Women, work, and property in North-West India
Male Bias' in Anthropology
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market
Women, Work and Property in North-West India
Women's Participation in Agriculture in India
Migration as a Household Process
Women's Work, Class, and the Urban Household
This study adds another dimension to the literature on the household, class formation, and urbanization in Third World countries. Women's work, and its contribution to consolidating the position of the household, is examined in detail
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor
Ritual Healing in Suburban America/Other Healers
Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine. A Countersystem Analysis (Book)
Complementary medicine today
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