Theory and Practice of Ethnography : Readings From the Periphery
Contents: Preface. Introduction: theory and practice of ethnography. I. Practice of ethnography: 1. Ideology and practice in ethnographic research/Kamal K. Misra. 2. Interpreting women's protest: ethnographic research with women survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster/Brian J. Mooney. 3. Empowerment and social change in Tripura tribal community of Bangladesh/Khurshed Alam. 4. 'Salwa Judum' and loss of cultural practices among tribes of Bastar: an anthropological concern/Devesh K. Sahu and Ankita Arya. 5. Scientific and cultural gap in explaining health: an ethnographic analysis of reproductive morbidity among tribal women in Kerala/O.G. Sajitha. 6. The ethnographic imagination/Mohan Ramanan. 7. Ethnography training for translators/Ramesh C. Malik. II. Language, literature and culture: an ethnographic appraisal: 8. How did the Oriya language catch 'fire'?/Panchanan Mohanty. 9. Question-words and its morpho-syntactic study of Rongmei language/Haireisim Newme. 10. Trajectory of extinction: forgotten spirit of Arabic-Malayalam/Yasser Arafath P.K. 11. Narrating the voice of the voiceless: a critical interrogation of marginality in modern Indian fiction/K. Venugopal Reddy. 12. The 'other' amidst 'us': the narrative of the domestic worker/Tutun Mukherjee. 13. Depiction of women in Ao-Naga folk tales/Resenmenla Longchar and J. Limainla Ao. III. Rethinking history and deconstruction of ethnographic realism: 14. Under surveying eyes: ethnographical profiling and the construction of 'identities' in the colonial writings in the Garo hills/Babitha Justin. 15. Creating identities: British rule and the Hos of Singhbhum, 1820-1932/Sanjukta Dasgupta. 16. Challenging the Sanskritic order: emergence of the Sudra to Subaltern consciousness in pre-colonial Orissa/Basanta Kumar Mallik. 17. The 'savage other' in Naga historiography: condition and paradigm/Temjenwabang. 18. Rethinking the concept of tribe construction and re-construction of Adivasi identity/Natrapal Singh. IV. Social development and ethnographic discourses: 19. The rational and the relative: history and tradition in the construction of social knowledge/Upendra. 20. Political economy of drought and sustainability: a village study in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh/P. Raghupathi, K. Gangaratnam and V. Subramanyam. 21. Land and Dalits: a village study/E. Krishna Rao. 22. Improved biophysical management and livelihood security: said and done through community watersheds?/R.P. Mula, N.V. Thang, T. Wangkahart, S.P. Wani and Y. Supama. 23. Perspectives on higher education: affirmative action for the marginalized/Md. Irfan Basha. 24. Poverty and vulnerability among tribal people: a case of Sugalis/Eswarappa Kasi.
"Theory and Practice of Ethnography is an anthology or research papers contributed by illustrious scholars both from India and abroad. It accentuates theoretical and empirical layout of the ethnography, language, literature, culture, rethinking history and social development. Ethnography is highly entertained in the search of the concept of the other, which is also elaborately discussed in the book. Its main emphasis is on the deprivation--economic, social, cultural and linguistic--among the marginalized groups of Indian society, such as women, tribals, and the downtrodden. Ethnography is both a process and a product; in this direction, the entire exercise in this volume focuses on applying the different methodological tools of ethnography.
We hope that students, researchers, teachers and policy makers working in the areas of anthropology, culture studies, sociology, public policy, history, literature, applied linguistics, folklore, development studies and general readers of social history will find this volume quite interesting and useful.'" (jacket)
