Historical Anthropology of Modern India

Bibliographic Data

ID7214124
AuthorsSaurabh Dube (0000-0002-4766-4694, El Colegio de México, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume5
Issue3
Pages763-779
Publication date2007-04-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00432.x
OpenAlexW1567510971
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

The last three decades have seen acute interchanges between history and anthropology in theoretical and empirical studies. Scholarship on South Asia has reflected these patterns, but it has also reworked such tendencies. Here, significant writings of the 1960s and 1970s brought together processes of history and patterns of culture as part of mutual fields of analysis and description. These emphases have been critically developed more recently. Anthropologists and historians have rethought theory and method, in order not only to crucially conjoin but to explore anew the ‘archive’ and the ‘field’. The blending has produced ‘historical anthropology’: writings that approach and explain in new ways elaborations of caste and community, colonialism and empire, nation and nationalism, domination and resistance, law and politics, myth and kingship, environment and ethnicity, and state and modernity – in the past and the present. Work in historical anthropology focuses on practice, process, and power, and often combines perspectives from gender, postcolonial, and subaltern studies

Ancient history · Applied anthropology · Archaeology · Caste · Colonialism · Empire · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Historical anthropology · Modernity · Mythology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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