The Artisans of Banaras : Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986

Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG.,, dustwrapper Textual graphs & tables Indian Ethnology Princeton University Press Princeton (1988) orig.c loth xix,279 pp., 24x16cm, Contents: Introduction: Popular Culture; History & Anthropology; On Identity, & Other Conclusions; The Chapters & their Argument; The Artisans of Banaras: The Nature of Work; Weavers; Metalworkers; Woodworkers; The Question of Identity: The Relations of Production; The Rhythms of Work; The Identity of an Ansari, ...of a Kasera, ...of a Woodworker; The Banaras of the Artisans: The Artisans' Mohallas; The Nature of Banarasipan; The Outer Side: Bahri Alang as Space, ...as Time; ...as Ritual;...as Mood; Bahri Alang for Muslims; The Decline of an Ideal; The Body & Its Pleasures:The Akhara; Akhara Ritual & Philosophy; The Social Organization of the Akhara; The Process of Decline; The Artisans' World of Music: Melas: The Burhva Mangal; The Monsoon Melas; Mandirs & Mazars; Musical Styles; Mehfils; Cutting Off the Nose, & Other Obscenities: The Four Major Festivals; The Nakkatayya of Chaitganj; Bharat Milap & Nag Nathayya; More on the Question of Identity: Caste & Class; Hindu-Muslim Relations; Conclusion; Appendices: Sources & Research Methodology; The Limits of Ethnosociology; Tara Prasad's Bhang Recipe.