Vinay Kumar Srivastava
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinay Kumar Srivastava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinay Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Srivastava |
| SIGNATURE | SRIVASTAVA V K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2844-9489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identity Politics, Solidarities and Development in Jaunsar Bawar
Identities make solidarities of one variety while they disrupt larger solidarities. Identities also are socially constructed by political leaders and the state. Jaunsar-Bawar is declared as a ‘Scheduled Tribe Area’ by the government of India. Hence, those living in the region even when they identify themselves as belonging to privileged castes enjoy the benefits of being categorised as ‘Scheduled Tribes’or STs. These privileged castes have come t…
Mahatma Gandhi and Anthropology
Obituary
Draft of the Policies for Great Andamanese and Sentinelese
On the Concept of Community
About social structure, A. L. Kroeber said that it is a ‘pleasant puzzle’, because there are several opinions on its constitution. In a similar vein, R. K. Merton said that social structure is polyphyletic and polymorphous, i.e. it has many meanings and ideas. The same is true of the concept of community. We use many concepts that we understand, but when it comes to defining them in precise terms, we start facing problems, and the concept of comm…
Itineraries of a Reclusive College Teacher
Anatomy of Stigma
Taking the lead from Erving Goffman’s celebrated work on stigma, this article attempts to examine ‘stigma as process’ (the process of stigmatisation), delineating the conditions most fecund for the crystallisation of ‘stigma as product’. These factors, appearing almost infallible, make an individual highly vulnerable, non-rational and lonely, with his or her survival instinct climbing the summit. Selfishness reigns, as the cause is located in an …
Pilgrimage, Tourism and Leisure
This article written in honour of Ishwar Modi, a renowned teacher of sociology at the University of Rajasthan, explores the relationship between three concepts—pilgrimage, tourism and leisure. Although these categories may be seen as overlapping, and an individual may consider his pilgrimage as an example of touring the unknown lands with an objective to have leisure, in theoretical terms, each one of them has its own defining properties. If reli…
Professor D. K. Bhattacharya
The National Committee Report on Tribal People
This article is a critical commentary on the report that the High-Level Committee on Socio-Economic, Health and Educational Status of Tribal Communities of India submitted to the Government of India in 2014. This is one of the most exhaustive reports on tribal societies in India, providing well analysed data on the different indices of their social and cultural life. The analysis of data on socio-economic, health and educational status is followe…
On the Concepts of Exclusion and Inclusion
The State of Research Culture in Indian Universities
Religion and Development
An interesting debate in social science pertains to the relationship between religion and economy, particularly the areas of economic development. Both these aspects are so different that they are often approached with a streak of scepticism. Religion is expected to drive one away from this world, engaging one with supra-empirical and spiritual concerns, and it is to its amelioration that the process of development devotes itself. This relationsh…
Speaking of Caste
Sociological Research in India
Yogendra Singh (Ed.), Indian Sociology, 3 Vols, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, 1241 pp., ₹4750, ISBN 0-19-809202-4 (Vol. 1), 0-19-809203-2 (Vol. 2), 0-19-809204-0 (Vol. 3)
Are Children Individuals
On Sanitation
This paper is an account of the toilets and manual scavenging in Delhi of the 1960s and the early 1970s. The author, born and brought up in Old Delhi, systematically looks at his memories and makes observations on toilets and lavatories therein, providing their first-hand account. The intricacies of social life are explored here. In a sequel to this paper the author intends to write on how the house and the living patterns changed when flush toil…
Vardesh Chandra Channa (May 5, 1946 - July 26, 2013)
Obituary
Indian Anthropology Today
A survey of the changing aspects of different disciplines—belonging to different faculties—informs us of the impact that anthropological methods, perspectives, theories, and the conclusions of their cross-cultural studies have exercised on them, which indirectly confirms the analytical strength, explanatory power, and methodological sophistication of anthropology. Notwithstanding this, the growth of anthropology in India has been both uneven and …
On renunciation, alternative society, and sociology
A Letter for the Cause of Anthropology
Two Letters for the cause of Anthropology in India
A Personal Memoir Professor J.S. Bhandari
Anil Mahajan (2 May 1952 - 8 February 2003)
The Rathore Rajput Hero of Rajasthan
Few books are exemplars of real hard work sustained over a lengthy period of time as is John Smith'sThe Epic of Pabuji(1991). Starting his investigation of the scroll of cloth painting in 1973, a huge structure measuring fifteen feet by four, locally termedpar, before which this epic is sung by a special caste of people, lower in hierarchy, called Naik Bhopa, Smith in a span of eighteen years has accomplished a work of lasting stay in the ethnogr…
Should Anthropologists Pay Their Respondents
tends to neutralize the constructive ethnographic and analytical possibilities of a focus on constructive activity by employing it only as a principle of deconstruction of anti-constructivist approaches like Malinowskian empiricism. It is possible, however, to move in a different direction from the same point of departure, and approach the ethnography, and theoretical analysis, of cultural representation through the study of the activities of pro…
On Sanitation
This paper is an account of the toilets and manual scavenging in Delhi of the 1960s and the early 1970s. The author, born and brought up in Old Delhi, systematically looks at his memories and makes observations on toilets and lavatories therein, providing their first-hand account. The intricacies of social life are explored here. In a sequel to this paper the author intends to write on how the house and the living patterns changed when flush toil…
In Search of Harmony Between Life and Environment
This paper discusses the problems that small societies are facing because of environmental degradation. Although they an the main sufferers, the impact of eco-spheric destruction is felt by all communities, and the developed the developing worlds. For checking eco-despoliation, the local participation is essential, and ethno-eaaleficat knowledge is indispensable for framing appropriate culturally rooted plans of development. Issues of ecology and…
Anatomy of Stigma
Taking the lead from Erving Goffman’s celebrated work on stigma, this article attempts to examine ‘stigma as process’ (the process of stigmatisation), delineating the conditions most fecund for the crystallisation of ‘stigma as product’. These factors, appearing almost infallible, make an individual highly vulnerable, non-rational and lonely, with his or her survival instinct climbing the summit. Selfishness reigns, as the cause is located in an …
Speaking of Caste
Indian Anthropology Today
A survey of the changing aspects of different disciplines—belonging to different faculties—informs us of the impact that anthropological methods, perspectives, theories, and the conclusions of their cross-cultural studies have exercised on them, which indirectly confirms the analytical strength, explanatory power, and methodological sophistication of anthropology. Notwithstanding this, the growth of anthropology in India has been both uneven and …
Ecology and Culture of the Bhutias of North Sikkim
This paper gives an account of the changes that have occurred in the Bhutias of North Sikkim especially after the Tibetan border was closed in 1962. Taking cultural ecology as the analytical method, this paper shows how the Bhutia life interacts with the environment. Although no reserve was created for them, as was the case with the Lepchas of Sikkim, they did have some degree of seclusion reinforced by political and ecological factors. Before th…
On Ethnography and the Sacred-Cow Controversy
Malinowski on Freedom & Civilization
Reply to Saraf
In Search of Harmony Between Life and Environment
This paper discusses the problems that small societies are facing because of environmental degradation. Although they an the main sufferers, the impact of eco-spheric destruction is felt by all communities, and the developed the developing worlds. For checking eco-despoliation, the local participation is essential, and ethno-eaaleficat knowledge is indispensable for framing appropriate culturally rooted plans of development. Issues of ecology and…
Ecology and Culture of the Bhutias of North Sikkim
This paper gives an account of the changes that have occurred in the Bhutias of North Sikkim especially after the Tibetan border was closed in 1962. Taking cultural ecology as the analytical method, this paper shows how the Bhutia life interacts with the environment. Although no reserve was created for them, as was the case with the Lepchas of Sikkim, they did have some degree of seclusion reinforced by political and ecological factors. Before th…
Should Anthropologists Pay Their Respondents
tends to neutralize the constructive ethnographic and analytical possibilities of a focus on constructive activity by employing it only as a principle of deconstruction of anti-constructivist approaches like Malinowskian empiricism. It is possible, however, to move in a different direction from the same point of departure, and approach the ethnography, and theoretical analysis, of cultural representation through the study of the activities of pro…
Malinowski and a reading of hisfreedom and civilization
The Rathore Rajput Hero of Rajasthan
Few books are exemplars of real hard work sustained over a lengthy period of time as is John Smith'sThe Epic of Pabuji(1991). Starting his investigation of the scroll of cloth painting in 1973, a huge structure measuring fifteen feet by four, locally termedpar, before which this epic is sung by a special caste of people, lower in hierarchy, called Naik Bhopa, Smith in a span of eighteen years has accomplished a work of lasting stay in the ethnogr…
When Peers are no More
An Old German Proverb is: ‘An old person who is loved is like a winter with flowers’. Keeping this in perspective, this paper explores the multitudinous dimension of old age with particular reference to India. It argues that along with myriad socio-economic measures, our policies for the old should also focus on integratingthe old people width their domestic systems on the one hand and society in general on the other
The Raika Jati and Its Dharmic Order
Caste and religion are interconnected. A caste often defines itself in religious terms. This paper offers itself in religious terms. This paper offers an example of a caste in Rajastan, The Raika, Which Belives to have originated from one of the Hindu Trinitarian delties.Lord Shiva.The latter also assigned a set of duties (dharma) for the Raikas. Today, the Raikas define themselves in terms of these dharmas
Some Thoughts on the Anthropology of Mental Health and Illness with Special Reference to India
This paper provides a macro-view of the state of mental health in India, and suggests that ideological changes should be brought out in the ways in which people view mental illness
Conversion, Continuity and Change
A Personal Memoir Professor J.S. Bhandari
Anil Mahajan (2 May 1952 - 8 February 2003)
A Letter for the Cause of Anthropology
Two Letters for the cause of Anthropology in India
On renunciation, alternative society, and sociology
Obituary
Indian Anthropology Today
A survey of the changing aspects of different disciplines—belonging to different faculties—informs us of the impact that anthropological methods, perspectives, theories, and the conclusions of their cross-cultural studies have exercised on them, which indirectly confirms the analytical strength, explanatory power, and methodological sophistication of anthropology. Notwithstanding this, the growth of anthropology in India has been both uneven and …
Vardesh Chandra Channa (May 5, 1946 - July 26, 2013)
Are Children Individuals
On Sanitation
This paper is an account of the toilets and manual scavenging in Delhi of the 1960s and the early 1970s. The author, born and brought up in Old Delhi, systematically looks at his memories and makes observations on toilets and lavatories therein, providing their first-hand account. The intricacies of social life are explored here. In a sequel to this paper the author intends to write on how the house and the living patterns changed when flush toil…
Sociological Research in India
Yogendra Singh (Ed.), Indian Sociology, 3 Vols, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, 1241 pp., ₹4750, ISBN 0-19-809202-4 (Vol. 1), 0-19-809203-2 (Vol. 2), 0-19-809204-0 (Vol. 3)
Religion and Development
An interesting debate in social science pertains to the relationship between religion and economy, particularly the areas of economic development. Both these aspects are so different that they are often approached with a streak of scepticism. Religion is expected to drive one away from this world, engaging one with supra-empirical and spiritual concerns, and it is to its amelioration that the process of development devotes itself. This relationsh…
Speaking of Caste
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