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

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“This book which addresses such key themes as modernity, morality and collective identity in both Vietnam and India will be of immense significance for scholars and students seeking to engage in comparative work on Asia…[It]opens up new fields of research and analysis for interdisciplinary scholarship on Asia.” • Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex

Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics including the lived experience of India’s caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Susan Bayly is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She was also the editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2000-2004). Her most recent publications include Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age. Vietnam, India and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 'Anthropology and History'. In Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. Matei Candea, ed. (London: Routledge, 2018).

Series: Volume 16, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

Area: Asia

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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Susan Bayly

Series: Volume 16, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

Area: Asia

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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Susan Bayly

Series: Volume 16, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

Area: Asia