The Bernard Cohn Omnibus An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization
by Cohn, Bernard S.; Chakrabarty, DipeshFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-06
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This Omnibus edition brings together three classic volumes by the renowned historian, Bernard Cohn, India: A Social Anthropology of a Civilization; An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays; and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge. In the first book, Cohn traced the development of Indian civilization by combining historical and anthropological approaches to the subject and provided a framework by example for the study of any complex society. The second book has become a legend of sorts, cited extensively in glowing terms by a whole host of scholars, who have taken the essays in this book to be a starting point for a methodology which combines the historical and anthropological approaches. The third title is a brilliant collection of Cohn's writings from the last fifteen years, discussing areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked.
Author Biography
Bernard S. Cohn was Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of Chicago.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to the Omnibus Edition | |
| An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays | |
| Introduction | |
| History and Anthropology | |
| An Anthrologist Among the Historians: A FieldStudy | |
| History and Anthropology: The State of Play | |
| Anthropology and History in the 1980s: Towards a Rapprochement | |
| India as a Field of Study | |
| Networks and Centres in the Integration ofIndian Civilization | |
| The Pasts of an Indian Village | |
| Regions Subjective and Objective: Their Relations to the Study of ModernIndian History and Society | |
| Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Sociey and Culture | |
| Is there a New Indian History? Society and Social Change Under the Raj | |
| African Models and Indian Histories | |
| The Census, Social STructure and Objectification in South Asia | |
| Untouchables | |
| The Changing Status of a Depressed Caste | |
| The Changing Traditions of a Low Caste | |
| Madhopur Revisited | |
| Chamar Family in a North Indian Village: A Structural Contingent | |
| The British in Benares | |
| The Initial British Impact on India: A CaseStudy of the Benares Region | |
| Structural Change in Indian Rural Society 1596-1885 | |
| The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society | |
| From Indian Status to British Contract | |
| Political Systems in Eighteenth Century India: The Benares Region | |
| The recruitment and Training of British Civil Servants in India | |
| Some Notes on Law and CHange in North India | |
| Anthropological Notes on Law and Disputes in North India | |
| Representations of Empire | |
| Representing Authority in Victorian India | |
| Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction : The Command Language and the Language of Command | |
| Law and the Colonial State in India | |
| The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities and Art inNineteeth Century India | |
| Cloth, Clothes and Colonialism: India in the Nineteeth Century | |
| India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilisation | |
| Approaches to the Study of Indian Civilisation | |
| India as a Geographic Entity | |
| Cultural and Historical Geography | |
| Demography, Economic Structures and Language | |
| The Shaping of Civilisation:Views of the Past | |
| The Cultural and Structural History of India | |
| Hindu Beginnings and Islamic Penetrations | |
| The Mughal Period and European Conquest | |
| Cultural and Structural History: Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries | |
| Urbanisation, Education, and Social and Cultural Change | |
| Indian Social Structure and Culture: Introduction | |
| Indian Social Structure and Culture: Caste | |
| The Indian Village | |
| Conclusion | |
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