 | Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India Subjects: Market towns -- India -- Rajasthan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century; City and town life -- India -- Rajasthan -- History -- 21st century; Ethnology -- India -- Rajasthan; Rajasthan (India) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century; Ann Grodzins Gold weaves together an integrated series of ethnographic sketches depicting the distinctive nature of non-urban, non-rural places; the impact locality has on belonging; the negotiations of difference required in a pluralistic society; and the ways a changing environment permeates experiences of self and place. Ann Grodzins Gold is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. |
