Aldeas indias entre la antropología y la historia
This essay considers the village in India as at once a concept and an entity. On the one hand, the multiple mappings and acute ambivalences surrounding the village, which I track, hold a mirror up to the past and present of the anthropology/sociology of India, including disciplinary linkages with st...
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2016
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| description | This essay considers the village in India as at once a concept and an entity. On the one hand, the multiple mappings and acute ambivalences surrounding the village, which I track, hold a mirror up to the past and present of the anthropology/sociology of India, including disciplinary linkages with state and nation. On the other hand, the distinct articulations and discrete expressionsof villages in the Chhattisgarh region of central India act as a prism, reflecting and refracting the designs and details of empire and modernity, the mission project and a vernacular Christianity, official law (and order) and quotidian legalities (and illegalities). Together, the essay approaches villages as being construed and inhabited through conventions of meaning and practice of scholarly and social worlds, worlds that come together and fall apart. Here, the village insinuates more than merely an object of understanding to intimate rather than a condition of knowing.The essay takes the form of a patchwork that begins by threading together while equally unraveling patterns of the village in the historical and ethnographic fabrics of twentieth century India. It has three parts, each interwoven with the other in a manner that allows all three to overlap with yet also extend one another. To start off, I raise critical questions concerning the past and the present of the village in the anthropology of India, queries that set the stage for the steps ahead. Next, I highlight the place of the village in processes of evangelical enmeshments. Finally, I turn to the salience of the village in the entanglements between colonial, modern law and popular, coeval legalities. Thus, drawing on aspects of my earlier writing and ongoing research, the effort is to explore the village as simultaneously articulated by and illustrative of broad designs as well as intimate textures of anthropological knowledge and disciplinary configurations, empire and modernity, Christianity and conversion, and state and nation.All of this is tied to yet another purpose of this patchwork design. The purpose is wide and upfront, indeed critically motivated in its own manner. Registering the ways in which materials, objects, and subjects of research —in this case, documents for the study of villages but also the villages themselves, especially their inhabitants and those who study (in) them— are found, lost, and regained, the patchwork reveals, too, the contingency that marks scholarlyundertakings. To face up to such contingency is to abandon the conceitsof a hyper-muscular scholarship, posing as disinterested science, which always knows where it has begun and already knows how it would end. Instead, it is the intention here to prudently probe the shifting scholarly construal of objects, subjects, and research, not the least in our own endeavors. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx:article-21812025-08-12T17:43:33Z Indian Villages between Anthropology and History Aldeas indias entre la antropología y la historia Dube, Saurabh Anthropology History Village Chhattisgarh South Asia Antropología historia aldea Chhattisgarh Sur de Asia This essay considers the village in India as at once a concept and an entity. On the one hand, the multiple mappings and acute ambivalences surrounding the village, which I track, hold a mirror up to the past and present of the anthropology/sociology of India, including disciplinary linkages with state and nation. On the other hand, the distinct articulations and discrete expressionsof villages in the Chhattisgarh region of central India act as a prism, reflecting and refracting the designs and details of empire and modernity, the mission project and a vernacular Christianity, official law (and order) and quotidian legalities (and illegalities). Together, the essay approaches villages as being construed and inhabited through conventions of meaning and practice of scholarly and social worlds, worlds that come together and fall apart. Here, the village insinuates more than merely an object of understanding to intimate rather than a condition of knowing.The essay takes the form of a patchwork that begins by threading together while equally unraveling patterns of the village in the historical and ethnographic fabrics of twentieth century India. It has three parts, each interwoven with the other in a manner that allows all three to overlap with yet also extend one another. To start off, I raise critical questions concerning the past and the present of the village in the anthropology of India, queries that set the stage for the steps ahead. Next, I highlight the place of the village in processes of evangelical enmeshments. Finally, I turn to the salience of the village in the entanglements between colonial, modern law and popular, coeval legalities. Thus, drawing on aspects of my earlier writing and ongoing research, the effort is to explore the village as simultaneously articulated by and illustrative of broad designs as well as intimate textures of anthropological knowledge and disciplinary configurations, empire and modernity, Christianity and conversion, and state and nation.All of this is tied to yet another purpose of this patchwork design. The purpose is wide and upfront, indeed critically motivated in its own manner. Registering the ways in which materials, objects, and subjects of research —in this case, documents for the study of villages but also the villages themselves, especially their inhabitants and those who study (in) them— are found, lost, and regained, the patchwork reveals, too, the contingency that marks scholarlyundertakings. To face up to such contingency is to abandon the conceitsof a hyper-muscular scholarship, posing as disinterested science, which always knows where it has begun and already knows how it would end. Instead, it is the intention here to prudently probe the shifting scholarly construal of objects, subjects, and research, not the least in our own endeavors. En los entendimientos de India, la aldea ha sido encontrada y se ha perdido varias veces ya. Tan importante es la aldea como unidad de entendimiento, como los materiales para su estudio que los académicos parecen deliciosamente descubrir, sólo para, de forma incierta, perderlos y después recuperarlos nuevamente; de hecho, estoy a punto de unirme a este coro. El Colegio de México 2016-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2181 10.24201/eaa.v51i1.2181 Estudios de Asia y África; Vol. 51, No. 1 (159), January-April, 2016; 17-44 Estudios de Asia y África; Vol. 51, núm. 1 (159), enero-abril, 2016; 17-44 2448-654X 0185-0164 spa https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2181/2179 https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2181/2284 Derechos de autor 2015 Estudios de Asia y África |
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| topic | Anthropology History Village Chhattisgarh South Asia Antropología historia aldea Chhattisgarh Sur de Asia |
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