Kinship in Bangladesh
Author: K. M. Ashraful Aziz
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
Kinship in Bengali culture
Author: Ronald B. Inden
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9788180280184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book Analyzes The Kinship System Of A Major Human Society That Possesses An Ancient, Literate Civilization And A Tradition Of Analytical Thought.
Kinship and Power Structure in Rural Bangladesh
Author: Md. Shairul Mashreque
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ethics of Kinship
Author: James D. Faubion
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780742509566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects eleven written primarily by anthropologists and graduate students at Rice University focusing on a variety of complex kinship arrangements involving entanglements of nation, class, ethnicity, gender, and desire. Topics include reflections on relatives and relational dynamics in Trinidad; the public politics of intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group; and families of origin, families of choice, and class mobility. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Author: Monika Böck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1785334867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical relations," and "genetic connections." Advocates of cultural constructivism have taken issue with a concept that puts so much stress on heredity as being severely biased by western ideas of kinship. Ethnosociologists in particular developed alternative systems using indigenous categories. This symbolic approach has, however, been rejected by some scholars as plagued by the problems of the analytical separation of ideology from practice, of largely overlooking relations of domination, and of ignoring the questions of shared knowledge and choice. This volume offers a corrective by discussing the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individiual strategies.
Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Author: Monika Böck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781571819116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
United They Survive
Author: Showkat Hayat Khan
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780739100509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnited They Survive examines the relationship between rural elites and the impoverished majority in contemporary Bangladesh. This relationship is both demonstrated and reinforced by the traditional practices of dana-pana (giving-taking) and dan-khairat (redistribution) that operates between the classes. Showkat Khan argues that the culturally mandated redistribution of wealth from rich to poor is not only vital to the survival of most rural Bangladeshis but also determines the shape of local politics. Moreover, these redistributive practices instill a sense of unity among members of the village community, regardless of personal wealth or status. This book will have especially strong appeal for anthropologists, international social workers, scholars of South Asia, and community organizers in the United States and abroad.
The Bangladesh Reader
Author: Meghna Guhathakurta
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0822353180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young nation, but the Bengal Delta region has been a major part of international life for more than 2,000 years, whether as an important location for trade or through its influence on Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim life. Yet the country rarely figures in global affairs or media, except in stories about floods, poverty, or political turmoil. The Bangladesh Reader does what those portrayals do not: It illuminates the rich historical, cultural, and political permutations that have created contemporary Bangladesh, and it conveys a sense of the aspirations and daily lives of Bangladeshis. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars, the Reader encompasses first-person accounts, short stories, historical documents, speeches, treaties, essays, poems, songs, photographs, cartoons, paintings, posters, advertisements, maps, and a recipe. Classic selections familiar to many Bangladeshis—and essential reading for those who want to know the country—are juxtaposed with less-known pieces. The selections are translated from a dozen languages; many have not been available in English until now. Featuring eighty-three images, including seventeen in color, The Bangladesh Reader is an unprecedented, comprehensive introduction to the South Asian country's turbulent past and dynamic present.
Everyday Life of Ready-made Garment Kormi in Bangladesh
Author: Mohammad Tareq Hasan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 3030999025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book portrays the scene where corporate international trade agreements, a new neoliberal state regime, and a growing textile market have contributed to the becoming of a new class of Muslim female workers—who labor in Bangladesh’s apparel export factories under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. The garment kormi—often abstracted by the homogenizing category of the “garment worker”—remain lost in the statistics of development and empowerment or contrarily exploitation. Thereby, focusing on the everyday lives of garment kormi, i.e., workers’ stories than on the collective of garment workers as a category, this book at one front highlights the neoliberal structures of difference and inequality, and on the other reflects on the potential of egalitarianism and change in terms of novel ways of comprising and expressing life-worlds. It shows that the values in life and the structures that govern life, such as contemporary Bangladesh’s neoliberal order, kinship relationality, and religiosity, are co-constitutive, multi-layered, and always on the move, never fixed.
The Rohingya
Author: Nasir Uddin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0199099839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities in the world. They used to live in the Arakan/Rakhine State of Burma/Myanmar for centuries, though it is a predominantly Buddhist country. Being victims of persecution as a result of ethnic cleansing and genocide, they started migrating to neighbouring countries from 1978, and after the massive migration August 2017 onwards, about 1.3 million Rohingyas now live in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh. This book offers a comprehensive portrait of how the state becomes instrumental in producing 'stateless' people, wherein both Myanmar and Bangladesh alienate the Rohingyas as illegal migrants, and they have to face unemployment, mental and sexual abuse, and deprivation of basic human necessities. The Rohingya proposes a new framework and theoretical alternative called 'subhuman life' for understanding the extreme vulnerability of the people as well as the genocide, ethnocide, and domicide taking place in the region. With several concrete ethnographic evidences, Nasir Uddin, apart from reconstructing the Rohingyas' regional history, sheds light on possible solutions to their refugee crisis and examines the regional political dynamics, South and Southeast Asian geopolitics, and bilateral and multilateral interstate relations.
