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Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
“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
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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