Table of contents

INTRODUCTION: DO VILLAGES MATTER? (DIANE P. MINES AND NICOLAS YAZGI); ; SECTION I: CONTEXTS; ; 1. Lost and Found: Villages Between Anthropology and History (Saurabh Dube); ; SECTION II: CRAFTING SELVES, OTHERS, AND SOCIETY; ; 2. Villages on the Campaign Trail (Nicolas Yazgi); ; 3. Villages Agency (William S. Sax); ; 4. Why Sacred Groves Matter: Post-romantic Claim (Anne Grodzins Gold); ; 5. The Man Makes the Village Makes the Man: The Story of Varandan, the Common Irrigator of a Village in Northern Tamil Nadu (Bettina Weiz); ; 6. Sect and the Quotidian in Village Life (Ishita Banerjee-Dube); ; 7. A Village as Hermeneutcial Lens: Spaces of Rural Hindu-Muslim Interactions (Peter Gottschalk); SECTION III: PROJECTIONS; ; 8. From Village to Shantytown: Poverty and Mobility in the Popular Films of the New India (Ronald Inden); ; 9. The Village in Cinema (M. Madhava Prasad); ; 10. Arms and the World: Village Apshinge (Maharashtra) Bounding and Extending Where (Lee I. Schelsinger); SECTION IV: COMPARATIVE EPISTIMOLOGIES; ; 11. The Rural Community, Or the Disappearing Act of French Anthropology (Octave Debary); ; 12. The Village as Frontier in Africa (Deborah Durham); ; AFTERWORD (E. VALENTINE DANIEL); REFERENCES