South Asia in Transition

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South Asia in Transition is written by Robert Parkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1793611793 (ISBN 10) and 9781793611796 (ISBN 13).

South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region or the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first group of chapters deals mostly with India and caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. A second group of chapters deals successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.