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Assayag - At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West - 9780253216366 - V9780253216366
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At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West

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Description for At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West Paperback. Leading figures in anthropology, history, and cultural and literary studies reflect on the complex interplay between individual and collective trajectories, examining their own experiences as students, scholars, and teachers. Editor(s): Assayag, Jackie; Benei, Veronique. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 299.

During the past two decades, at the same time that the South Asian presence in the U.S. and Europe has become an increasingly visible part of mainstream social life and popular culture, scholars of South Asian descent have come to occupy many prominent positions within the Western academy, contributing to the development of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. In this collection of highly personal essays, leading figures in anthropology, history, and cultural and literary studies reflect on the complex interplay between individual and collective trajectories, examining their own experiences as students, scholars, and teachers. Their narratives trace the ... Read more

Contributors are Shahid Amin, Arjun Appadurai, Urvashi Butalia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, Vasudha Dalmia, Prasenjit Duara, Ramachandra Guha, Akhil Gupta, Sudipta Kaviraj, Purnima Mankekar, Gyan Prakash, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253216366
SKU
V9780253216366
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About Assayag
Jackie Assayag is Directeur de recherche, Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris. Véronique Bénéï is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

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