Global issues, local contexts: the Rabi Das of West Bengal

By:

Ganguly, Ruchira

Contributor(s):

Scrase

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Orient Blackswan 2013 Hyderabad, IndiaDescription: 268 pISBN:

9788125050520

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.56880954 G2G5

Summary: This book is an ethnographic study of a community of leather workers (the Rabi Das), and their transformations under global capitalism. The lived experiences of the Rabi Das are embedded within the broader context of India''s economic liberalisation as well as in the local system of class and cultural relations in Bengali society. The various chapters in the book provide a detailed analysis of the changing nature of their conditions of employment, education, lifestyle and survival strategies. In her richly textured narrative Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase uncovers the process of Rabi Das cultural and economic marginalisation despite six decades of efforts towards self-improvement. This edition also has a new Preface. This book will be of interest to readers in anthropology, comparative sociology, development studies and Asian Studies. http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-81-250-5052-0&t=e

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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This book is an ethnographic study of a community of leather workers (the Rabi Das), and their transformations under global capitalism. The lived experiences of the Rabi Das are embedded within the broader context of India''s economic liberalisation as well as in the local system of class and cultural relations in Bengali society. The various chapters in the book provide a detailed analysis of the changing nature of their conditions of employment, education, lifestyle and survival strategies. In her richly textured narrative Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase uncovers the process of Rabi Das cultural and economic marginalisation despite six decades of efforts towards self-improvement. This edition also has a new Preface.

This book will be of interest to readers in anthropology, comparative sociology, development studies and Asian Studies.

http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-81-250-5052-0&t=e

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