State University of New York Press, 1998. hbk 308pp.no dj as issued decorated laminated boards a new and unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new State University of New York Press, 1998 ISBN 079143687X 9780791436875 [US]

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ISBN10: 079143687X, ISBN13: 9780791436875, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Hardcover Hardcover. Untouchable Pasts constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community over the last two hundred years. The Satnamis of Central India have combined the features of a caste and a sect to question and challenge the tenor of ritual power that variously defines Hinduism. At the same time, within the community, schemes of meaning and power, particularly those centering on gender, have been imbued with ambiguity and a reproduction of forms of inequality. The book presents an interpretive account of Satnami endeavors, encounters, and experiences by bringing together the perspectives of history and anthropology, archival and field work. It addresses a clutch of theoretical issues and a range of key and inextricably bound relationships in an accessible manner. Issues of caste and untouchability, sect and kinship, myths and pasts are rendered here as part of a wider dynamic between religion and power, gender and community, writing and the constitution of traditions, ritual and the making of modernities, and orality and the construction of histories. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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