Author: E. Valentine Daniel

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he r …

This volume originated in a conference on ”Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia”, held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in Septembe …

This volume originated in a conference on ”Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia”, held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in Septembe …

The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world—1 in 130 inhabitants …

The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creatio …

Fluid Signs is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging …