Curriculum spring 2020
The course readings consist of three anthropological or historical monographs from South Asia. To optimize the thematic relevance for the participants, we select the monographs at our first course meeting. We encourage you to bring your own book suggestions along. As long as they are published by a renowned academic publisher, engage with South Asian topics and are monographic in nature, the course is open to a wide variety of topics.
One of the books must be chosen from the list below.
Taneja, Anand Vivek 2018: Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Khan, Naveeda 2012: Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. Durham: Duke University Press.
Williams, Philippa 2015: Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India. Sussex: Wiley Blackwell.
Srinivas, Tulasi 2018: The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. Durham: Duke University Press
Subramaniam, Banu 2019: Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: The University of Washington Press
Das, Veena 2015: Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty. New York: Fordham University Press.
Schaflechner, Jürgen 2018: Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan. New York: Oxford University Press
Sen, Atreyee 2007: Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum. London: Hurst & Company
Lamb, Sarah 2000: White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press
Ghassem-Fachandi 2012: Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Dominique-Sila Khan 2003 [1997]: Conversions and Shifting Identitites: Ramdev Pir and the Ismailis in Rajasthan. Delhi: Manohar/Centre de Sciences Humaines
David Mosse 2012: The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. Berkeley: University of California Press