Nicholas Dirks: 3 books
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite...
Castes of Mind
Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival...
From the Margins
Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and...