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Sound Studies
July 13, 2018
Keywords in Sound
David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny
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Ian Cook
Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) pushes at the boundaries of ‘sound studies’ through its intellectual overviews …
South Asian Studies
June 29, 2018
Waste of a Nation
Garbage and Growth in India
Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
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Ian Cook
Is India facing a waste crisis? As its population, cities and consumption grow what are the implications for the health, well being and everyday lives of Indians? In Waste of …
Sound Studies
June 15, 2017
Sonic Rupture
A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design
Jordan Lacey
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Ian Cook
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the functional noises of …
South Asian Studies
June 8, 2017
Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade
Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations
Rajan Gurukkal
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Ian Cook
Rajan Gurukkal's Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations (Oxford University Press, 2016) casts a critical eye over the exchanges, usually and problematically termed trade, between …
South Asian Studies
March 6, 2017
Nation at Play
A History of Sport in India
Ronojoy Sen
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Ian Cook
Covering sporting activities from ancient times right up to the modern day, Ronojoy Sen's Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Columbia University Press, 2016) is at once …
South Asian Studies
March 2, 2017
Patronage as Politics in South Asia
Anastasia Piliavsky
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Ian Cook
Does patronage always imply a corruption of democratic political processes? Across sixteen essays by historians, political scientists and anthropologists Patronage as Politics in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2014), edited …
South Asian Studies
November 23, 2016
Reengineering India
Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy
Carol Upadhya
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Ian Cook
How is India's burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? How are software engineers managed? What are their …
South Asian Studies
November 2, 2016
The Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Rupa Viswanath
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Ian Cook
The so called "Pariah Problem" emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and "upper"caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation of Dalits …
South Asian Studies
October 28, 2016
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets
Medicine and Martial Arts in South India
Roman Sieler
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Ian Cook
Roman Sieler's Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained ethnographic study of varmakkalai--the art of vital spots, a South …
South Asian Studies
September 26, 2016
Nature in the City
Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
Harini Nagendra
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Ian Cook
In Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press, 2016), Harini Nagendra traces centuries of interaction between ecology and urban change, revealing not only …
South Asian Studies
August 17, 2016
BITS of Belonging
Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India
Simanti Dasgupta
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Ian Cook
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India's silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta's new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in …
South Asian Studies
August 11, 2016
Rule by Aesthetics
World-Class City Making in Delhi
D. Asher Ghertner
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Ian Cook
D. Asher Ghertner explores why the ways things look are fundamental for Delhi's transformation into a "world class"city. Based on deep ethnographic engagement in one of the city's slums that …
South Asian Studies
August 2, 2016
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Lisa Bjorkman
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Ian Cook
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India's celebrated economic upturn, but the city's transformation went hand-in-hand with increasing water woes. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures …
Science Fiction
June 29, 2016
Europe in Autumn
Dave Hutchinson
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Ian Cook
Do not call Dave Hutchinson prescient. Even though his Fractured Europe Sequence envisions a continent crumbling into ever-smaller countries, the idea that his homeland could Brexit the EU had not …
South Asian Studies
June 26, 2016
Reel World
An Anthropology of Creation
Anand Pandian
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Ian Cook
Do we live in a real world or a 'reel world,' in which life begins to feel like a film? In this wonderful ethnography of the Tamil film industry, Anand …
South Asian Studies
June 13, 2016
The Trouble with Marriage
Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India
Srimati Basu
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Ian Cook
Are solutions to marital problems always best solved through legal means? Should alternative dispute resolutions be celebrated? In her latest book The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence …
South Asian Studies
May 19, 2016
Making News in Global India
Media, Publics, Politics
Sahana Udupa
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Ian Cook
What role does Bangalore's private news culture play in shaping the southern Indian metropolis' ongoing urban transformation? Sahana Udupa's new book Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics (Cambridge …
South Asian Studies
April 8, 2016
Paper Tiger
Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India
Nayanika Mathur
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Ian Cook
A village terrorized by a man eating tiger and a state struggling to implement possibly the largest social security program in the world coalesce in this wonderful ethnography of bureaucracy …
South Asian Studies
March 2, 2016
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947
Mitra Sharafi
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Ian Cook
Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, were deeply entwined with the colonial legal system of British India and Burma, far beyond what one might expect from their relativity small numbers. Mitra …
South Asian Studies
February 24, 2016
Jallad
Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
Tasneem Khalil
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Ian Cook
State executioners in their various guises are explored in all their horrific detail by Tasneem Khalil, in his new book Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia (Pluto …
South Asian Studies
February 3, 2016
Rituals of Ethnicity
Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India
Sara Shneiderman
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Ian Cook
Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Sara Shneiderman is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a Himalayan community who move …
South Asian Studies
January 18, 2016
Dehli
Pages From A Forgotten History
Arthur Dudney
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Ian Cook
Delhi: Pages From A Forgotten History (Hay House India, 2015) by Arthur Dudney tells the story of India's capital and beyond through the lens of Persian literary culture. A lively …
South Asian Studies
October 2, 2015
Entangled Urbanism
Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon
Sanjay Srivastava
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Ian Cook
Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University Press, 2015) is the latest book by Sanjay Srivastava. A wonderfully readable piece of urban anthropology …
South Asian Studies
September 22, 2015
Impossible Citizens
Dubai's Indian Diaspora
Neha Vora
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Ian Cook
Neha Vora's Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfully rich and engaging account of middle class Indians who live and work, supposedly temporarily, in Dubai …
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