Modern Kerala
Modern Kerala

Author: K. K. N. Kurup

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9788170990949

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Articles on land tenure and social change; covers chiefly up to the mid-20th century.

Social Mobility In Kerala
Social Mobility In Kerala

Author: Filippo Osella

Publisher: Pluto Press

Published: 2000-12-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780745316932

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Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the processes involved, the ideologies that support or thwart it, and what happens to the people involved. They focus on the caste called Izhavas, a group that in the mid-19th century consisted of a small land-owning and titled elite and a large mass of landless and small tenants who were largely illiterate and considered untouchable, and who eked out a living by manual labor and petty trade. In the 20th century, Izhavas pursued mobility in many social arenas, both as a newly united caste and as families. The work considers how successful the mobility has been and looks at the effects on their society of an ethos of progress. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

A Panorama of Indian Culture
A Panorama of Indian Culture

Author: K. K. Kusuman

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9788170992141

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Festschrift honoring a historian from Kerala; contributed articles.

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala
Hereditary Physicians of Kerala

Author: Indudharan Menon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0429663129

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This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala’s heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical, historical, sociocultural, ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala’s last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers, poison therapists, Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology, health and social medicine, sociology and social anthropology, the history of science and modern Indian history, as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine.

Kerala Modernity
Kerala Modernity

Author: Satheese Chandra Bose

Publisher: UN

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788125057222

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The southwest coast of India has always been a significant site within the global network of relations through trade and exchange of ideas, commodities, technologies, skills and labour. The much longer history of colonial experience makes Kerala's engagement with modernity polyvalent and complex. Without understanding the multiple space-times of this region, it is impossible to make sense of the complexities of Kerala modernity beyond its general description as 'Malayalee modernity'.

Kerala History and its Makers
Kerala History and its Makers

Author: A. Sreedhara Menon

Publisher: D C Books

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9788126437825

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This volume deals with the history of Kerala with special attention to selected historical personages who had played significant roles in shaping the history of Kerala through the ages.

Kerala: the Development Experience
Kerala: the Development Experience

Author: Govinda Parayil

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2000-08-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781856497275

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At a time when disillusion with neo-liberal development nostrums is mounting, alternative models of development are being revisited. Kerala's 30 million people may not have experienced rapid growth in GDP per capita, but they have for the past several decades achieved a remarkable social record in terms of adult literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, stabilising population growth, and narrowing gender and spatial gaps.What are the implications of the disjuncture between human development and economic growth? What are the political, social and cultural factors responsible for Kerala's success? Does its human development record necessarily relate to sustainability in environmental terms? How inclusive has the Kerala model been, particularly for the fishing community and other socially marginalised groups?Can the new people's campaign for decentralised development from below make Kerala's development experience more enduring? What realistic view can be taken of its replicability elsewhere in India or further afield in the South? These are among the most important questions explored in this timely reassessment.

The Aesthetics of Ugliness in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema
The Aesthetics of Ugliness in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema

Author: Sunitha Srinivas C

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-09-27

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1036409376

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Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual representation of the Ugly, its politics and aestheticization, are deeply rooted in the screen space. Featuring unconventional characters, unembellished visuals, raw and gritty storytelling, the unaesthetic challenges conventional notions of beauty on screen. The physical, psychological, and social manifestations of the ugly are incorporated into the cinematic space through content, theme, physical representations, symbols, setting, dialogue, as well as the camera. Exploring the intricate connection between ugliness and the cinematic medium, the book focuses on identity, gender, and other manifestations of Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. It meticulously analyses the portrayal of ugliness in characters, narratives, and visual aesthetics, thus highlighting societal norms and realities of life. The book is a must-read for film scholars, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the intersection of aesthetics and storytelling.