Jonathan P Parry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan P Parry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Parry |
| SIGNATURE | PARRY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Questions of Anthropology
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Nehru's dream and the village 'waiting room: Long-distance labour migrants to a central Indian steel town
This article focuses on long-distance rural migrants to the steel town of Bhilai. The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) was built with Soviet aid and by largely migrant labour drawn from all over India. It was one of a handful of mega-projects intended to kick-start India's modernisation, epitomising the Nehruvian dream. The central question addressed here concerns the extent to which its workforce have become permanent urban dwellers or form part of a pa…
Du bagne des champs aux riantes usines: Le travail dans une entreprise sidérurgique indienne
A un niveau ethnographique, cet article est centré sur le travail et les ouvriers d'une immense usine sidérurgique indienne du secteur public. Il présente également une rapide comparaison avec le travail agricole et le secteur industriel privé. Au niveau théorique, l'auteur propose une critique de la thèse d'E.P. Thompson, selon laquelle la production industrielle moderne exige et développe un nouveau concept du temps ainsi qu'une discipline diff…
The ‘Crisis of Corruption’ and ‘The Idea of India’: A Worm’s Eye View
Ankalu's Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry in Contemporary Chhattisgarh
The Man with the Brief-case I once met a man with a brief case on a train . . . I forget between where and where. If you have travelled by train in India you may have met him too. He is conscious of cultural difference and wishes you to understand that Indians have family values - on account of which they don't go in for divorce or extra-marital sex. It was possibly he who first told me (though I have read it somewhere since) that actuarial calcu…
Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai
At the ethnographic level this paper discusses work and work-groups in the company town of Bhilai (Madhya Pradesh). Though its central focus is on those who have permanent jobs with the Bhilai Steel Plant, a large-scale public sector enterprise, brief comparison is made with current attitudes to peasant agriculture, with contract labour in the plant and with workers in the private sector. At an analytical level, it offers a critique of E.P. Thomp…
Mauss, Dumont, and the Distinction Between Status and Power
Death in Banaras
Money and the morality of exchange
Comment on Robert Gardner's "Forest of Bliss"
Death and the Regeneration of Life
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the s…
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Part 1: Inter-caste relations1. Introduction: the axiom and idiom of inequality2. The setting3. The economy4. The hierarchical aspects of castePart 2: The internal structure of the caste5. Clans and their segments6. Households and their partition7. Rajput hypergamy in an historical perspective8. The 'biradari' reform movement9. Marriage strategies10. Affines and consanguines11. Conclusion: The limits of hierarchy
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Money and the morality of exchange
Ankalu's Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry in Contemporary Chhattisgarh
The Man with the Brief-case I once met a man with a brief case on a train . . . I forget between where and where. If you have travelled by train in India you may have met him too. He is conscious of cultural difference and wishes you to understand that Indians have family values - on account of which they don't go in for divorce or extra-marital sex. It was possibly he who first told me (though I have read it somewhere since) that actuarial calcu…
Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai
At the ethnographic level this paper discusses work and work-groups in the company town of Bhilai (Madhya Pradesh). Though its central focus is on those who have permanent jobs with the Bhilai Steel Plant, a large-scale public sector enterprise, brief comparison is made with current attitudes to peasant agriculture, with contract labour in the plant and with workers in the private sector. At an analytical level, it offers a critique of E.P. Thomp…
Nehru's dream and the village 'waiting room: Long-distance labour migrants to a central Indian steel town
This article focuses on long-distance rural migrants to the steel town of Bhilai. The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) was built with Soviet aid and by largely migrant labour drawn from all over India. It was one of a handful of mega-projects intended to kick-start India's modernisation, epitomising the Nehruvian dream. The central question addressed here concerns the extent to which its workforce have become permanent urban dwellers or form part of a pa…
Death and the Regeneration of Life
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the s…
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Du bagne des champs aux riantes usines: Le travail dans une entreprise sidérurgique indienne
A un niveau ethnographique, cet article est centré sur le travail et les ouvriers d'une immense usine sidérurgique indienne du secteur public. Il présente également une rapide comparaison avec le travail agricole et le secteur industriel privé. Au niveau théorique, l'auteur propose une critique de la thèse d'E.P. Thompson, selon laquelle la production industrielle moderne exige et développe un nouveau concept du temps ainsi qu'une discipline diff…
Questions of Anthropology
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Part 1: Inter-caste relations1. Introduction: the axiom and idiom of inequality2. The setting3. The economy4. The hierarchical aspects of castePart 2: The internal structure of the caste5. Clans and their segments6. Households and their partition7. Rajput hypergamy in an historical perspective8. The 'biradari' reform movement9. Marriage strategies10. Affines and consanguines11. Conclusion: The limits of hierarchy
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Death and the Regeneration of Life
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the s…
Comment on Robert Gardner's "Forest of Bliss"
Money and the morality of exchange
Death in Banaras
Mauss, Dumont, and the Distinction Between Status and Power
Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai
At the ethnographic level this paper discusses work and work-groups in the company town of Bhilai (Madhya Pradesh). Though its central focus is on those who have permanent jobs with the Bhilai Steel Plant, a large-scale public sector enterprise, brief comparison is made with current attitudes to peasant agriculture, with contract labour in the plant and with workers in the private sector. At an analytical level, it offers a critique of E.P. Thomp…
The ‘Crisis of Corruption’ and ‘The Idea of India’: A Worm’s Eye View
Ankalu's Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry in Contemporary Chhattisgarh
The Man with the Brief-case I once met a man with a brief case on a train . . . I forget between where and where. If you have travelled by train in India you may have met him too. He is conscious of cultural difference and wishes you to understand that Indians have family values - on account of which they don't go in for divorce or extra-marital sex. It was possibly he who first told me (though I have read it somewhere since) that actuarial calcu…
Du bagne des champs aux riantes usines: Le travail dans une entreprise sidérurgique indienne
A un niveau ethnographique, cet article est centré sur le travail et les ouvriers d'une immense usine sidérurgique indienne du secteur public. Il présente également une rapide comparaison avec le travail agricole et le secteur industriel privé. Au niveau théorique, l'auteur propose une critique de la thèse d'E.P. Thompson, selon laquelle la production industrielle moderne exige et développe un nouveau concept du temps ainsi qu'une discipline diff…
Nehru's dream and the village 'waiting room: Long-distance labour migrants to a central Indian steel town
This article focuses on long-distance rural migrants to the steel town of Bhilai. The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) was built with Soviet aid and by largely migrant labour drawn from all over India. It was one of a handful of mega-projects intended to kick-start India's modernisation, epitomising the Nehruvian dream. The central question addressed here concerns the extent to which its workforce have become permanent urban dwellers or form part of a pa…
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Questions of Anthropology
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)