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Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Historicity, Power Relations, and Visuality as Perspectives on Asian Contexts

Chapter 1. Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
Chapter 2. Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives
Chapter 3. At Home in the World of Work: Women, Work and Care in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Chapter 4. Beyond ‘Propaganda’: Images and the Moral Citizen in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Chapter 5. How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: Achieving the Positive in Today’s Vietnam
Chapter 6. Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene
Chapter 7. Reflections on Caste in South Asia
Chapter 8. Listening to Asian Voices in the Postcolonial Age

Conclusion: Morality, Achievement, Modernity, Comparison

Index

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Susan Bayly

402 pages, 25 color ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-500-3 Hb Published (May 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-501-0 eBook