R Thomas Rosin
Biographic Data
| ID | 77731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Thomas Rosin |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosin |
| SIGNATURE | ROSIN R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sonoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1446-9785 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dining Across the Decades in Rajasthan, India
I tell tales of dining and drinking across three decades in Rajasthan, India, evoking memories of challenge and character defining choices. From whom and with whom I dine or drink proves to be an act expressing relative purity (shuddha) and adherence to principle (dharma). Each heartfelt choice leaves he investigators from a foreign land wondering about consequences upon our stature and rapport for subsequent research. Meanwhile the local communi…
From Garden Suburb to Olde City Ward
In post-Independence India, new colonies of garden suburbs served an educated citizenry to integrate science and nature into their daily life. However, one such colony of bungalows ( kothi) and gardens, begun in Jaipur in the 1950s, after two generations of incremental construction, has become in the 1990s similar to an old city ward with towering courtyard houses ( haveli) abutting the property lines. This longitudinal study compares the middle …
Wind, traffic and dust
Indian conceptions about the earth's recycling of wastes is an important domain for investigation. The use of dust as a cleansing agent leads us to inquire into local notions about elemental processes, the tropic cycle, and the role of the streets as venue and traffic as process in recycling the detritus and castaways of daily life. We relate local expectations about waste disposal to textual sources, utilise Ayurvedic theory and practice to unde…
If Rain Doesn't Come
Rainfall is very unreliable in western Rajasthan and drought and famine are frequent. Applying an ecological-anthropological approach, this study shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopt different adaptive strategies for subsistence and demonstrates the inter-relationships between physical, social, economic and political factors in the human ecology of the region
The tradition of groundwater irrigation in Northwestern India
From the quarries of Makrana came the marble for the Taj Mahal a photo essay
From Makrana came the pure white marble for such monuments to Moghul architectural design as the Taj Mahal. The very perfection of the Taj, celebrated as image and romantic ideal, appears to invite few reflections on the labor of those thousands involved in its construction. To the image of the Taj Mahal may we join the image of the quarry, as representative of the working classes whose skill and efforts were as necessary as the architects who co…
Gold Medallions
[Editor Singleton provided the following introduction for this article in its original printing: One of the skills usually associated with literacy is that of arithmetic computation. We are tempted to assume, therefore, that illiterate people are necessarily incapable of computations that we perform symbolically with arithmetic notation. This study of one part of the cognitive system of an illiterate peasant demonstrates the sophisticated concept…
Land Reform in Rajasthan
Modernization and Development
Wind, traffic and dust
Indian conceptions about the earth's recycling of wastes is an important domain for investigation. The use of dust as a cleansing agent leads us to inquire into local notions about elemental processes, the tropic cycle, and the role of the streets as venue and traffic as process in recycling the detritus and castaways of daily life. We relate local expectations about waste disposal to textual sources, utilise Ayurvedic theory and practice to unde…
If Rain Doesn't Come
Rainfall is very unreliable in western Rajasthan and drought and famine are frequent. Applying an ecological-anthropological approach, this study shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopt different adaptive strategies for subsistence and demonstrates the inter-relationships between physical, social, economic and political factors in the human ecology of the region
Modernization and Development
Land Reform in Rajasthan
Gold Medallions
[Editor Singleton provided the following introduction for this article in its original printing: One of the skills usually associated with literacy is that of arithmetic computation. We are tempted to assume, therefore, that illiterate people are necessarily incapable of computations that we perform symbolically with arithmetic notation. This study of one part of the cognitive system of an illiterate peasant demonstrates the sophisticated concept…
From the quarries of Makrana came the marble for the Taj Mahal a photo essay
From Makrana came the pure white marble for such monuments to Moghul architectural design as the Taj Mahal. The very perfection of the Taj, celebrated as image and romantic ideal, appears to invite few reflections on the labor of those thousands involved in its construction. To the image of the Taj Mahal may we join the image of the quarry, as representative of the working classes whose skill and efforts were as necessary as the architects who co…
The tradition of groundwater irrigation in Northwestern India
If Rain Doesn't Come
Rainfall is very unreliable in western Rajasthan and drought and famine are frequent. Applying an ecological-anthropological approach, this study shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopt different adaptive strategies for subsistence and demonstrates the inter-relationships between physical, social, economic and political factors in the human ecology of the region
Wind, traffic and dust
Indian conceptions about the earth's recycling of wastes is an important domain for investigation. The use of dust as a cleansing agent leads us to inquire into local notions about elemental processes, the tropic cycle, and the role of the streets as venue and traffic as process in recycling the detritus and castaways of daily life. We relate local expectations about waste disposal to textual sources, utilise Ayurvedic theory and practice to unde…
From Garden Suburb to Olde City Ward
In post-Independence India, new colonies of garden suburbs served an educated citizenry to integrate science and nature into their daily life. However, one such colony of bungalows ( kothi) and gardens, begun in Jaipur in the 1950s, after two generations of incremental construction, has become in the 1990s similar to an old city ward with towering courtyard houses ( haveli) abutting the property lines. This longitudinal study compares the middle …
Dining Across the Decades in Rajasthan, India
I tell tales of dining and drinking across three decades in Rajasthan, India, evoking memories of challenge and character defining choices. From whom and with whom I dine or drink proves to be an act expressing relative purity (shuddha) and adherence to principle (dharma). Each heartfelt choice leaves he investigators from a foreign land wondering about consequences upon our stature and rapport for subsequent research. Meanwhile the local communi…
Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Art (3 works)