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Author Gold, Ann Grodzins

Title Shiptown : Between Rural and Urban North India
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017

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Description 1 online resource (347 pages)
Series Contemporary Ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Origins, Gateways, Dwellings, Routes, Histories -- Chapter 1. Legends: Of Names, Snakes, and Compassion -- Chapter 2. Entries: Five Gates and a Window -- Chapter 3. Colony: Suburban Satisfaction -- Chapter 4. Streets: Everyone Loves a Parade -- Chapter 5. Depths: Minas and Jains Inside, Outside, Underground -- Part II. Ecology, Love, Money -- Chapter 6. Questioning Landscapes: Of Trees and a River -- Chapter 7. Teaching Hearts: A Triple Wedding -- Chapter 8. Talking Business: Commerce and Cosmology -- Epilogue. Wondrous Jahazpur -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Market towns -- India -- Rajasthan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
City and town life -- India -- Rajasthan -- History -- 21st century
Ethnology -- India -- Rajasthan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
City and town life
Ethnology
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Rajasthan (India) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Subject India -- Rajasthan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812294125
0812294122