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Behind Mud Walls

Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: William Wiser,Charlotte Wiser,Susan S. Wadley

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Behind Mud Walls

Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: William Wiser,Charlotte Wiser,Susan S. Wadley

Behind Mud Walls is an excellent introduction to the changes that have taken place in India from the mid-1920s to today, seen from the village level. It is an engaging read, filled with first hand observations of great clarity and explanatory power. It introduces the changing world of the village, where still 50 percent of the world's population, and 75 percent of India's population, live."—Howard Spadek, author of The World's History

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Univ of California Press

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0520227107

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9780520227101

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

An Introduction

By: Susan S Wadley

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South Asia in the World: An Introduction

An Introduction

By: Susan S Wadley

This first book in the new Foundations in Global Studies series offers a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to South Asia. The variations in social, cultural, economic, and political life in this diverse and complex region are explored within the context of the globalising forces affecting all regions of the world. In a simple strategy that all books in the series employ, the volume begins with foundational material (including chapters on history, language, and, in the case of South Asia, religion), moves to a discussion of globalisation, and then focuses the investigation more specifically through the use of case studies. The cases expose the student to various disciplinary lenses that are important in understanding the region and are meant to bring the region to life through subjects of high interest and significance to today's readers. Resource boxes, an important feature of the book, are included to maintain currency and add utility. They offer links that point readers to a rich archive of additional material, connections to timely data, reports on recent events, official sites, local and country-based media, visual material, and so forth. A website developed by Syracuse University's South Asia Center will feature additional graphic, narrative, and case study material to complement the book.

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Routledge

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131745958X

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9781317459583

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

By: Susan S. Wadley

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Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

By: Susan S. Wadley

Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur—the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser—as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us a work of unprecedented scope: a portrait of an Indian village as it has changed over a sixty-year period. She hears of changes in agriculture, labor relations, education, and the family. But Karimpur's residents do not speak with one voice in describing the ways their lives have changed—viewpoints vary considerably depending on the speaker's gender, economic status, and caste. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, Wadley examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male. She demonstrates that the forms of subordination prescribed for women are paralleled by those prescribed for lower castes. Villagers also speak of political struggles in India, and of the importance of religion when confronting change. Their stories, songs, and life histories reveal the rich fabric of Karimpur and show how much can be learned from listening to its people.

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Univ of California Press

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0520914333

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9780520914339

Women, Family, and Child Care in India

A World in Transition

By: Susan Christine Seymour

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Women, Family, and Child Care in India

A World in Transition

By: Susan Christine Seymour

Documents the lives of 24 families in India over almost thirty years.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521598842

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Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

By: Susan Snow Wadley

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Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

By: Susan Snow Wadley

Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur--the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser--as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding hears of changes in agriculture, labor relations, education, and the family. But Karimpur's residents do not speak with one voice in describing the ways their lives have changed--viewpoints vary considerably depending on the speaker's gender, economic status, and caste. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, Wadley examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male. She demonstrates that the forms of subordination prescribed for women are paralleled by those prescribed for lower castes.

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Univ of California Press

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0520084063

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Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

By: Susan S. Wadley

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By: Susan S. Wadley

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Nepal

Three Weeks of Cultural & Shamanic Immersion April 2006

By: Susan Chapman Melanson

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Nepal

Three Weeks of Cultural & Shamanic Immersion April 2006

By: Susan Chapman Melanson

Nine of us traveled to Nepal in April 2006 with Dr. Larry Peters to observe various shamanic healing techniques and receive shamanic initiation at the time of the April full moon with Aama Bombo, one of the International Counsel of Indigenous Grandmothers. While we were there anti-monarchy demonstrations broke out and the King of Nepal tried to use curfews to subdue the unrest in Kathmandu. A nationwide strike accompanied the demonstrations and Maoist insurgents took advantage of the turmoil. The US Embassy sent its non-essential personnel out of Nepal, and a serious fuel and food shortage developed. This diary-style record of twenty-four days in April 2006 allows the reader to accompany us as we experienced shamanic training, toured Kathmandu and Pokhara, as well as witnessing history in the making.

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Lulu.com

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0615135595

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9780615135595

Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions

By: Susan Snow Wadley

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Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions

By: Susan Snow Wadley

The Study Of Folk Traditions Provides A Critical Look At The Accepted, Largely High Caste Male-Authored Views Of Hinduism And Society In India.

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Orient Blackswan

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8180280160

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Raja Nal and the Goddess

The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance

By: Susan Snow Wadley

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Raja Nal and the Goddess

The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance

By: Susan Snow Wadley

... [T]ells a wonderful story, one much loved in northern India.... fills an important lacuna in the work on oral epic." -- Lindsey Harlan Dhola is an oral epic performed primarily by lower-caste, usually illiterate, men in the Braj region of northern India. The story of Raja Nal, "a king who does not know he is a king," this vast epic portrays a world of complex social relationships involving changing and mistaken identities, goddesses, powerful women, magicians, and humans of many different castes. In this comprehensive study and first extended English translation based on multiple oral versions, Susan Snow Wadley argues that the story explores the nature of humanity while also challenging commonplace assumptions about Hinduism, gender, and caste. She examines the relationship between oral and written texts and the influence of individual performance styles alongside a lyrical translation of the work.

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Indiana University Press

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0253111277

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9780253111272

Making Miss India Miss World

Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India

By: Susan Dewey

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Making Miss India Miss World

Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India

By: Susan Dewey

For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country’s borders. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey’s Making Miss India Miss World examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815631766

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Stigmas of the Tamil Stage

An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India

By: Susan Seizer

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Stigmas of the Tamil Stage

An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India

By: Susan Seizer

A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilnadu. Held in towns and villages throughout the region, Special Drama performances last from 10 p.m. until dawn. There are no theatrical troupes in Special Drama; individual artists are contracted “specially” for each event. The first two hours of each performance are filled with the kind of bawdy, improvisational comedy that is the primary focus of this study; the remaining hours present more markedly staid dramatic treatments of myth and history. Special Drama artists themselves are of all ages, castes, and ethnic and religious affiliations; the one common denominator in their lives is their lower-class status. Artists regularly speak of how poverty compelled their entrance into the field. Special Drama is looked down upon by the middle- and upper-classes as too popular, too vulgar, and too “mixed.” The artists are stigmatized: people insult them in public and landlords refuse to rent to them. Stigma falls most heavily, however, on actresses, who are marked as “public women” by their participation in Special Drama. As Susan Seizer’s sensitive study shows, one of the primary ways the performers deal with such stigma is through humor and linguistic play. Their comedic performances in particular directly address questions of class, culture, and gender deviations—the very issues that so stigmatize them. Seizer draws on extensive interviews with performers, sponsors, audience members, and drama agents as well as on careful readings of live Special Drama performances in considering the complexities of performers’ lives both on stage and off.

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Duke University Press

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0822386194

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South Asia in the World: An Introduction

An Introduction

By: Susan S Wadley

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An Introduction

By: Susan S Wadley

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Behind Mud Walls

Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: William Wiser,Charlotte Wiser,Susan S. Wadley

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Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition

By: William Wiser,Charlotte Wiser,Susan S. Wadley

A classic account of an Indian village, with an extended postscript written a generation later.

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0520227107

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Behind Mud Walls

Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village

By: William Henricks Wiser,Charlotte Viall Wiser,Susan Snow Wadley

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Behind Mud Walls

Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village

By: William Henricks Wiser,Charlotte Viall Wiser,Susan Snow Wadley

(Expanded Edition With New Chapters By Susan S, Wadley) In 1925, William And Charlotte Wiser Arrived In The North Indian Village Of Karimpur As Missionaries. Over The Next Five Years, They Wrote One Of The First Studies Of Village India, Originally Published In 1930. Charlotte Wiser Continued To Observe And Write About The Village Until Her Death, When Susan Wadley Picked Up The Narrative. With Updates From The 1960S, 1970S, 1984, And 2000, This Expanded Edition Now Encapsulates Seventy-Five Years Of Continuity And Change In The Village. The Book Has A Foreword By David G. Mandelbaum.

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Orient Blackswan

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8180280128

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9788180280122

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Behind Mud Walls

Behind Mud Walls

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Women, Family, and Child Care in India

Women, Family, and Child Care in India

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984

Nepal

Nepal

Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions

Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions

Raja Nal and the Goddess

Raja Nal and the Goddess

Making Miss India Miss World

Making Miss India Miss World

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

Behind Mud Walls

Behind Mud Walls

Behind Mud Walls

Behind Mud Walls

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