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The modern anthropology of India: ethnography, themes and theory

The modern anthropology of India: ethnography, themes and theory: (2017). The modern anthropology of India: ethnography, themes and theory. Contemporary South Asia. Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1080/09584935.2017.1332321

Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from the Global South-Special Issue

Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from the Global South Guest Editors: Eswarappa Kasi and Julia Guenther http://www.sagepub.in/repository/binaries/PDFs/SpecialIssue_JDS.pdf; http://jds.sagepub.com/ This JDS special issue on ‘Globalization and People at the Margins’ provides an interdisciplinary examination of the effects of globalization on the dispossessed, the marginal, and the excluded sectors of the population. In general, the articles in this issue reveal that the market-oriented development strategies associated with globalization have adversely affected the livelihoods of India’s marginalized people. The issue also reveals how certain civil society organizations in India have opposed the exploitative and exclusivist forms of development associated with globalization while also advocating a more participatory and people-centric paradigm of development that empowers and gives voice to the marginalized sectors of the population.

Social Exclusion in India: Critical Ethnographic Discourse from the Margins-Special Issue

Social Exclusion in India: Critical Ethnographic Discourse from the Margins-Special Issue, 2013, Annuaire Roumain d’Anthropologie (Romanian Year Book of Anthropology), Guest Edited by R. Yalamala, R. Oakley, and Kasi, E. http://annuaire.antropologia.ro/volume-50-2009 The current volume of Annuaire Roumain d’Anthropologie, with a topic on social exclusion in India, continues and expands this new orientation towards current issues in contemporary societies. Post-socialist countries, including Romania, experience similar social problems that plague developing countries such as India. By publishing this special volume the editors intend to renew the signal that this journal, as part of a wider Romanian academic publishing space, is opened to anthropologically relevant subjects dealing with global issues, major population health concerns, and various societal phenomena – e.g. aging, trends in nutrition, economic transition, etc. –, social exclusion being just one of them.

Issues and Perspectives in Anthropology Today

New Book: Issues and Perspectives in Anthropology Today edited by R. SIVA PRASAD AND ESWARAPPA KASI (2013), Serials Publications: New Delhi. http://serialspublications.com/books/index.php?route=product/product&path=5&product_id=3053

Theory and Practice of Ethnography: Readings from the Periphery

Theory & Practice of Ethnography: Readings from the Periphery

Edited by: Eswarappa Kasi and Ramesh C. Malik (2009), 356 pages, Rs. 950

ISBN 81-316-0306-7

Theory and Practice of Ethnography is an anthology of 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.

Wehope 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.

Eswarappa Kasi is currently Guest Faculty at the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. His interests include anthropology of livelihoods, tribal and marginal communities and their development. His New book 'Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India: An Ethnography of Sericulture from the South' CSP, UK, 2009.

He has edited/co-edited many books. He was a co-guest editor of a special issue of Man in India on 'Issues and Perspectives in Anthropology Today;

Ramesh C. Malik is a UGCSenior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CAlTS), School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, HydNabad. His research interests are translation studies, literary studies and ethnographic studies. Hehas published many papers in nationaljournals and co-edited two books.

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Dimensions of Social Exclusion: Ethnographic Explorations- New Book

Dimensions of Social Exclusion: Ethnographic Explorations
Editor: K.M. Ziyauddin and Eswarappa Kasi
Date Of Publication: Nov 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1342-6
Isbn: 1-4438-1342-7
Dimensions of Social Exclusion focuses largely on social exclusion in the context of communities and social groups who have or have not been considered in discussing the benefits of mainstream inclusive society or development. Contemporary understanding of social exclusion has revived great interest among academics, researchers and policy makers in understanding problems from the perspectives of social exclusion. The decision to adopt the perspective of social exclusion has not been universal; rather the nature of this is very heterogeneous. In addition, the concept of social exclusion is not static; in reality, it is a process. The process is seen in the marginalization and discrimination of people in their everyday lives and interactions.

The term ‘exclusion’ has become a part of the vocabulary in Europe and other developing societies like ‘poverty’ or ‘unemployment’; it is one of those words which seem to have both an everyday meaning and an underlying sense. It emphasizes the social aspects of concerns such as housing, health, employment, education, participation in social activities and festivities, social interaction and social intercourse. It excludes certain communities and groups from interaction and access to social resources through social arrangements, normative value systems and customs. Exclusion based on caste is one example and patriarchy is another, which is a form of systemic or constitutive exclusion. Having social, cultural, political and economic ramifications, it is also a complex and multi-dimensional concept. These dimensions are interwoven and are addressed in the different papers of the volume.

This book revolves around the societal interventions and institutions that exclude, discriminate, isolate and deprive some groups on the basis of group identities such as caste or ethnicity. It covers a wide spectrum of societies and communities living in various cultural environments. The multidisciplinary nature of the book will render it helpful to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, historical and political studies, demography, social work and gender studies in particular and the humanities in general.

K. M. Ziyauddin is Assistant Professor-cum-Assistant Director at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, India. Previously, he had been a faculty member in both the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia and the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hamdard University, New Delhi. He has published on health and illness, scavengers and Dalits, issues of Muslims and child labour. He has worked on several national and international research projects on HIV/AIDS, child labour and education, workers in the unorganized and construction sectors, displacement and development, rural development and other issues. He is a life member of several bodies/societies including the Indian Sociological Society, International Journal of Research and Social Sciences, IASSH, SAMAR Foundation and the Society for Applied Economic Research. He has received several scholarships during his studies, which also included an ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship in 2006.

Eswarappa Kasi is a Guest Faculty Member in the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is a life member of a number of professional bodies. His research interests include anthropology of livelihoods and natural resource management, tribal and marginal communities and their development. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. His books include a monograph entitled Anthropology and Development in a Globalised India: An Ethnography of Sericulture from the South (Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), forthcoming) and an edited volume, Ethnographic Discourse of the Other: Conceptual and Methodological Issues with Panchanan Mohanty and Ramesh C. Malik (CSP, 2008). He was guest-editor of a special issue of Man in India on 'Issues and Perspectives in Anthropology Today' with R. Siva Prasad. He is also co-editor of Theory and Practice of Ethnography: Readings from the Periphery (Rawat Publications, Jaipur, in press) with Ramesh C. Malik and editor of Rethinking Development Discourse in the 21st Century India (Serials Publications, New Delhi, 2009).

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