Susan Bayly
Biographic Data
| ID | 97985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Bayly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayly |
| SIGNATURE | BAYLY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Portrait: Susan Bayly
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Social Anthropology is a vibrant discipline of relevance to many areaseconomics, politics, business, humanities, health and public policy.This series, published in association with the Cambridge William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology, focuses on key interventions in Social Anthropology, based on innovative theory and research of relevance to contemporary social issues
Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia
Beyond 'Propaganda: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam
This article forges connections between two vibrant areas of current research within and beyond Asian studies: visual anthropology and the anthropology of morality and ethics. Its focus is on achieving moral citizenship as represented in Vietnam's visually spectacular capital, Hanoi, and on images as active and morally compelling, not mere reflections of the challenges of late-socialist marketization. The case of Vietnam compares intriguingly wit…
La voix de la propagande: Citoyenneté et silence moral dans le Vietnam socialiste d’aujourd’hui
À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Hanoï, capitale vibrante du Vietnam, cet article interroge la raison pour laquelle les tentatives de discussion autour de l'iconographie moralisatrice publique peuvent si souvent provoquer le silence chez des interlocuteurs habituellement loquaces. Il est suggéré ici qu'il s'agit d'instants de silence agentif, où le silence du locuteur peut être un acte de volonté morale et non l'écrasement de l'agentivi…
The voice of propaganda: Citizenship and moral silence in late-socialist Vietnam
Building on ethnographic fieldwork in Vietnam's vibrant capital Hanoi, this article asks why attempts to use moralising public iconography as talking points with research collaborators can so often have a silencing effect on otherwise voluble interlocutors. It is proposed that these are moments of agentive silence, where the muting of a vocal self can be an act of moral will, not the crushing of agency and voice. It is therefore suggested that th…
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
The giant composite field of colonialism and postcolonialism studies has had a transforming effect on modern anthropology. Anthropologists have been innovative users of its multidisciplinary perspectives, and key contributors to its challenging accounts of past and contemporary global life and experience. The call to prioritise colonial and postcolonial perspectives in the framing of anthropology's central research questions has greatly extended …
How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today's Vietnam
The exaltation of achievement as a measure of collective and individual worth and moral agency has been one of the defining features of Asian developmentalism. Yet in today's age of globalized neoliberal attainment monitoring, the question of who and what an achiever actually is within an achievement-conscious society is far from straightforward or uncomplicated. In Vietnam, the notion of doing well and creditably for self and nation can be deepl…
Mapping Time, Living Space: Comment and Reply
The Bad, Fear and Blame? Comment on Bayly’s Mapping Time, Living Space Stephan FeuchtwangReply Susan Bayly
Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Building on fieldwork in Hanoi, this article uses the idea of moral cartography to explore the ethical significance attached to the expertise of mapmakers, geomancers and psychic grave-finders, fields widely esteemed in Vietnam as scientific disciplines with strong moral entailments. Of central concern are the ways such practices reflect the intertwining of the temporal and the geophysical. The material expressions of these engagements include ar…
French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina
This chapter uses anthropological as well as historical approaches to explore the distinctive nature of colonialism in French-ruled Indochina. From this interdisciplinary perspective, it seeks to contextualize a rich but little-known series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings on Indochina’s peoples and cultures. It notes particularly their emphasis on concepts of the community and of the transforming revolutionary event. And it argues t…
Hero and deity: Tran Hung Dao and the resurgence of popular religion in Vietnam - By Pham Quynh Phuong
The American war in contemporary Vietnam: Transnational remembrance and representation - By Christina Schwenkel
War and shadows: The haunting of Vietnam - By Mai Lan Gustafsson
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning and Power. Joseph Errington
Conceptualizing Resistance and Revolution in Vietnam: Paul Mus' Understanding of Colonialism in Crisis
The French scholar-polemicist Paul Mus has been widely but misleadingly portrayed as a colonial thinker whose knowledge of Buddhist and Sanskritic cosmologies was deployed to produce representations of Vietnamese and other Asians as slaves of agentless cultural models based on principles of divine mandate or heavenly will. But, focusing on the distinctive ways in which the themes of political action, historicity, and psychically dynamic selfhood …
India's «Empire of Culture». Sylvain Lévi and the Greater India Society
Imagining 'Greater India: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
This article explores both Western and Asian imaginings of national histories beyond the boundaries of the nation. It seeks to contribute to the history of Asian modernities, and to the anthropological study of nationalism. Its focus is on thinkers and political actors whose visions of both the colonising and decolonising processes were translocal, rather than narrowly territorial in scope
Vietnamese Intellectuals in Revolutionary and Postcolonial Times
This article is concerned with cultural capital and its deployment in pre- and post-independence Vietnam. Its focus is transnational career and family life as experienced by multilingual women and men from Hanoi intelligentsia families who have negotiated a remarkable array of divergent socialist and post-colonial modernities over the past 40 to 50 years. The personal narratives explored here include recollections of francophone education during …
The Evolution of Colonial Cultures: Nineteenth-Century Asia
This chapter explores the phenomenon of ‘invisible empire’, that is, the many different encounters of the intellect and imagination which brought Asians and Britons together, often violently and contentiously, during the ‘long’ nineteenth century. It specifically asks what cultural differences British rule made to the complex societies of colonial Asia. It also concentrates on three main aspects of ‘invisible empire’. The first of these is settin…
Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age
"The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Some scholars see India's caste system as the defining feature of Indian culture, although it is dismissed by others as a colonial artefact. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to so-called 'caste society' over a period of 350 years, from the pre…
Historical origins of a ‘caste society’
This chapter focuses the spread of the lordly or Kshatriya-centred manifestations of caste values. It discusses three important elements of change in the new states and dominions of the post-Mughal period: first, the emerging courtly synthesis between Kshatriya-like kings and Brahmans, later the diffusion of these values and practices into the world of the upper non-elite 'peasantry', and finally the continuing power and importance of martial 'pr…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access SUSAN BAYLY SUSAN BAYLY Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1027-b–1028, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1027-b Published: 01 September 1998
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Imagining 'Greater India: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
This article explores both Western and Asian imaginings of national histories beyond the boundaries of the nation. It seeks to contribute to the history of Asian modernities, and to the anthropological study of nationalism. Its focus is on thinkers and political actors whose visions of both the colonising and decolonising processes were translocal, rather than narrowly territorial in scope
Hindu Kingship and the Origin of Community: Religion, State and Society in Kerala, 1750-1850
Until recently the Malayalam-speaking region of southern India-once known as the Malabar coast and now the state of Kerala-was portrayed as a bastion of orthodox high Hinduism. The region's caste system was famous for its intricacy and supposed rigidity; its temples were rich, numerous and heavily patronized by Malayali rulers; and there was a general sense of the area as a picturesque backwater hidden away behind the western Ghats, untouched by …
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Vietnamese Intellectuals in Revolutionary and Postcolonial Times
This article is concerned with cultural capital and its deployment in pre- and post-independence Vietnam. Its focus is transnational career and family life as experienced by multilingual women and men from Hanoi intelligentsia families who have negotiated a remarkable array of divergent socialist and post-colonial modernities over the past 40 to 50 years. The personal narratives explored here include recollections of francophone education during …
Beyond 'Propaganda: Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam
This article forges connections between two vibrant areas of current research within and beyond Asian studies: visual anthropology and the anthropology of morality and ethics. Its focus is on achieving moral citizenship as represented in Vietnam's visually spectacular capital, Hanoi, and on images as active and morally compelling, not mere reflections of the challenges of late-socialist marketization. The case of Vietnam compares intriguingly wit…
How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today's Vietnam
The exaltation of achievement as a measure of collective and individual worth and moral agency has been one of the defining features of Asian developmentalism. Yet in today's age of globalized neoliberal attainment monitoring, the question of who and what an achiever actually is within an achievement-conscious society is far from straightforward or uncomplicated. In Vietnam, the notion of doing well and creditably for self and nation can be deepl…
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
Conceptualizing Resistance and Revolution in Vietnam: Paul Mus' Understanding of Colonialism in Crisis
The French scholar-polemicist Paul Mus has been widely but misleadingly portrayed as a colonial thinker whose knowledge of Buddhist and Sanskritic cosmologies was deployed to produce representations of Vietnamese and other Asians as slaves of agentless cultural models based on principles of divine mandate or heavenly will. But, focusing on the distinctive ways in which the themes of political action, historicity, and psychically dynamic selfhood …
Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Building on fieldwork in Hanoi, this article uses the idea of moral cartography to explore the ethical significance attached to the expertise of mapmakers, geomancers and psychic grave-finders, fields widely esteemed in Vietnam as scientific disciplines with strong moral entailments. Of central concern are the ways such practices reflect the intertwining of the temporal and the geophysical. The material expressions of these engagements include ar…
VIII. Islam and State Power in Pre-colonial South India
The problem that I have been dealing with over the last few years is how it might be possible to create a historical context for the study of South Indian religion. Like a number of other South Indian historians I have been concentrating on the rise and development of new states and chiefdoms during the late pre-colonial period — that is in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of European expansion in the sub-continent which …
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Social Anthropology is a vibrant discipline of relevance to many areaseconomics, politics, business, humanities, health and public policy.This series, published in association with the Cambridge William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology, focuses on key interventions in Social Anthropology, based on innovative theory and research of relevance to contemporary social issues
La voix de la propagande: Citoyenneté et silence moral dans le Vietnam socialiste d’aujourd’hui
À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Hanoï, capitale vibrante du Vietnam, cet article interroge la raison pour laquelle les tentatives de discussion autour de l'iconographie moralisatrice publique peuvent si souvent provoquer le silence chez des interlocuteurs habituellement loquaces. Il est suggéré ici qu'il s'agit d'instants de silence agentif, où le silence du locuteur peut être un acte de volonté morale et non l'écrasement de l'agentivi…
The voice of propaganda: Citizenship and moral silence in late-socialist Vietnam
Building on ethnographic fieldwork in Vietnam's vibrant capital Hanoi, this article asks why attempts to use moralising public iconography as talking points with research collaborators can so often have a silencing effect on otherwise voluble interlocutors. It is proposed that these are moments of agentive silence, where the muting of a vocal self can be an act of moral will, not the crushing of agency and voice. It is therefore suggested that th…
Hindu Kingship and the Origin of Community: Religion, State and Society in Kerala, 1750-1850
Until recently the Malayalam-speaking region of southern India-once known as the Malabar coast and now the state of Kerala-was portrayed as a bastion of orthodox high Hinduism. The region's caste system was famous for its intricacy and supposed rigidity; its temples were rich, numerous and heavily patronized by Malayali rulers; and there was a general sense of the area as a picturesque backwater hidden away behind the western Ghats, untouched by …
VIII. Islam and State Power in Pre-colonial South India
The problem that I have been dealing with over the last few years is how it might be possible to create a historical context for the study of South Indian religion. Like a number of other South Indian historians I have been concentrating on the rise and development of new states and chiefdoms during the late pre-colonial period — that is in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of European expansion in the sub-continent which …
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700–1900
South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the…
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Extra-European history: The retreat from unity
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Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access SUSAN BAYLY SUSAN BAYLY Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1027-b–1028, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1027-b Published: 01 September 1998
The Evolution of Colonial Cultures: Nineteenth-Century Asia
This chapter explores the phenomenon of ‘invisible empire’, that is, the many different encounters of the intellect and imagination which brought Asians and Britons together, often violently and contentiously, during the ‘long’ nineteenth century. It specifically asks what cultural differences British rule made to the complex societies of colonial Asia. It also concentrates on three main aspects of ‘invisible empire’. The first of these is settin…
Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age
"The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Some scholars see India's caste system as the defining feature of Indian culture, although it is dismissed by others as a colonial artefact. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to so-called 'caste society' over a period of 350 years, from the pre…
Historical origins of a ‘caste society’
This chapter focuses the spread of the lordly or Kshatriya-centred manifestations of caste values. It discusses three important elements of change in the new states and dominions of the post-Mughal period: first, the emerging courtly synthesis between Kshatriya-like kings and Brahmans, later the diffusion of these values and practices into the world of the upper non-elite 'peasantry', and finally the continuing power and importance of martial 'pr…
Imagining 'Greater India: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
This article explores both Western and Asian imaginings of national histories beyond the boundaries of the nation. It seeks to contribute to the history of Asian modernities, and to the anthropological study of nationalism. Its focus is on thinkers and political actors whose visions of both the colonising and decolonising processes were translocal, rather than narrowly territorial in scope
Vietnamese Intellectuals in Revolutionary and Postcolonial Times
This article is concerned with cultural capital and its deployment in pre- and post-independence Vietnam. Its focus is transnational career and family life as experienced by multilingual women and men from Hanoi intelligentsia families who have negotiated a remarkable array of divergent socialist and post-colonial modernities over the past 40 to 50 years. The personal narratives explored here include recollections of francophone education during …
India's «Empire of Culture». Sylvain Lévi and the Greater India Society
Conceptualizing Resistance and Revolution in Vietnam: Paul Mus' Understanding of Colonialism in Crisis
The French scholar-polemicist Paul Mus has been widely but misleadingly portrayed as a colonial thinker whose knowledge of Buddhist and Sanskritic cosmologies was deployed to produce representations of Vietnamese and other Asians as slaves of agentless cultural models based on principles of divine mandate or heavenly will. But, focusing on the distinctive ways in which the themes of political action, historicity, and psychically dynamic selfhood …
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning and Power. Joseph Errington
The American war in contemporary Vietnam: Transnational remembrance and representation - By Christina Schwenkel
War and shadows: The haunting of Vietnam - By Mai Lan Gustafsson
French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina
This chapter uses anthropological as well as historical approaches to explore the distinctive nature of colonialism in French-ruled Indochina. From this interdisciplinary perspective, it seeks to contextualize a rich but little-known series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings on Indochina’s peoples and cultures. It notes particularly their emphasis on concepts of the community and of the transforming revolutionary event. And it argues t…
Hero and deity: Tran Hung Dao and the resurgence of popular religion in Vietnam - By Pham Quynh Phuong
Mapping Time, Living Space: Comment and Reply
The Bad, Fear and Blame? Comment on Bayly’s Mapping Time, Living Space Stephan FeuchtwangReply Susan Bayly
Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Building on fieldwork in Hanoi, this article uses the idea of moral cartography to explore the ethical significance attached to the expertise of mapmakers, geomancers and psychic grave-finders, fields widely esteemed in Vietnam as scientific disciplines with strong moral entailments. Of central concern are the ways such practices reflect the intertwining of the temporal and the geophysical. The material expressions of these engagements include ar…
How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today's Vietnam
The exaltation of achievement as a measure of collective and individual worth and moral agency has been one of the defining features of Asian developmentalism. Yet in today's age of globalized neoliberal attainment monitoring, the question of who and what an achiever actually is within an achievement-conscious society is far from straightforward or uncomplicated. In Vietnam, the notion of doing well and creditably for self and nation can be deepl…
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
The giant composite field of colonialism and postcolonialism studies has had a transforming effect on modern anthropology. Anthropologists have been innovative users of its multidisciplinary perspectives, and key contributors to its challenging accounts of past and contemporary global life and experience. The call to prioritise colonial and postcolonial perspectives in the framing of anthropology's central research questions has greatly extended …
La voix de la propagande: Citoyenneté et silence moral dans le Vietnam socialiste d’aujourd’hui
À partir d'enquêtes de terrain réalisées à Hanoï, capitale vibrante du Vietnam, cet article interroge la raison pour laquelle les tentatives de discussion autour de l'iconographie moralisatrice publique peuvent si souvent provoquer le silence chez des interlocuteurs habituellement loquaces. Il est suggéré ici qu'il s'agit d'instants de silence agentif, où le silence du locuteur peut être un acte de volonté morale et non l'écrasement de l'agentivi…
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