Everyday life in South Asia / edited by Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-486) and index.

One straw from a broom cannot sweep : the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Susan S. Wadley -- Allah gives both boys and girls / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- "Out here in Kathmandu" : youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal / Mark Liechty -- The role of suffering in women's performance of paxto / Benedicte Grima -- Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb -- Memorializing the self : the autobiographical will and testament of Narayana Guruviah Chetty, Madras City, 1915 / Mattison Mines -- New light in the house : schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Family and gender systems in transition : a thirty-five-year perspective / Susan Seymour -- Offstage with special drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India : roadwork / Susan Seizer -- Nervous masculinity : consumption and the production of embodied gender in Indian wrestling / Joseph S. Alter -- Dosti and Tamanna : male-male love, difference, and normativity in Hindi cinema / Ruth Vanita -- Life on the margins : a Hijra's story / Serena Nanda -- God-chariots in a garden of castes : hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / Steven M. Parish -- High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine -- The erasure of everyday life in colonial ethnography / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Anjali's prospects : class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey -- Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system -- The Hindu gods in a south Indian village / Diane P. Mines -- The feast of love / McKim Marriott -- The delusion of gender and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Kim Gutschow -- Presence : Yolmo spirit-callings in Nepal / Robert Desjarlais -- Tunes rising from the soul and other narcissistic prayers : contested realms in Bangladesh / Jim Wilce -- Political praise in Tamil newspapers : the poetry and iconography of Democratic power / J. Bernard Bate -- Outsiders at home : the south Asian diaspora in South Asia / Gautam Ghosh -- Why do Hindus and Muslims fight : children and history in India / Nita Kumar -- Walking through violence : "Everyday life" and anthropology / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Interviews with high school students in Eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick -- Cindy at the Taj : cultural enclosure and corporate potentateship in an era of globalization / William Mazzarella -- A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman -- British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall -- Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan -- Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel.