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Shorelines reveals how spatial imaginaries and practices affect power and politics through a close look at how Catholic fishing communities in southwestern India have defended their role as custodians of the local sea and expressed their rights in relation to church and state.
After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast decided to take their church to court. This title shows their struggle, providing insights into contemporary Indian democracy, citizenship,…
Shorelines reveals how spatial imaginaries and practices affect power and politics through a close look at how Catholic fishing communities in southwestern India have defended their role as custodians of the local sea and expressed their rights in relation to church and state.
Béteille examines the relations between 3 fundamental aspects of social stratification, providing a method for describing and analysing variation in stratification systems. The epilogue surveys the changing fortunes of village studies in India.
Etude sur les castes, les communautés rurales de Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu.
Béteille examines the relations between 3 fundamental aspects of social stratification, providing a method for describing and analysing variation in stratification systems. The epilogue surveys the changing fortunes of village studies in India.
