 | A Moral Technology: Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi Subjects: Electrification -- Political aspects -- India -- New Delhi; Electric utilities -- Political aspects -- India -- New Delhi; Technology and state -- India -- New Delhi; Technology -- Anthropological aspects -- India -- New Delhi; Political science -- Anthro; In A Moral Technology , the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process. Leo Coleman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the editor of Food: Ethnographic Encounters . |
