A Companion to the Anthropology of India / edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès.

"A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India's globalization in the twenty-first century. Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of I...

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Other Authors: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017 (Editor), Guilmoto, Christophe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, ©2011.
Series:Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 8.
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