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Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India

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Description for Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India Paperback. An ethnography on the meaning of virtue amongst the Kallar people of rural southern India, who were considered to be a criminal caste by the British colonizers. Num Pages: 344 pages, 33 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
How do people come to live as they ought to live? Crooked Stalks seeks an answer to this enduring question in diverse practices of cultivation: in the moral horizons of development intervention, in the forms of virtue through which people may work upon their own desires, deeds, and habits, and in the material labors that turn inhabited worlds into environments for both moral and natural growth. Focusing on the colonial subjection and contemporary condition of the Piramalai Kallar caste—classified, condemned, and policed for decades as a “criminal tribe”—Anand Pandian argues that the work of cultivation in all of these senses ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822345312
SKU
V9780822345312
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About Anand Pandian
Anand Pandian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is an editor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India
“Crooked Stalks is comprehensive, theoretically-sophisticated, and persuasively argued. Scholars and students interested in South Asian agrarian history, ethics, development issues, and agrarian thought will find this book compelling.”
A. Whitney Sanford
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
“Crooked Stalks might be read for the sheer lyrical quality of its prose. It draws from two distinct philosophical traditions, ... Read more

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