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Crafting Innovation, Weaving Sustainability: Theorizing Indian Handloom Weaving as Sociotechnology
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 241–248.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Annapurna Mamidipudi Abstract Handloom weaving in India is a vibrant and dynamic craft-based technology that is more than two thousand years old. It is the second-largest provider of rural livelihoods, with a 10 percent share of the domestic textile market, unified under the cultural brand...
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Is Development a Red Herring? Indian Fishworkers, Multinationals and the State
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 108–114.
Published: 01 August 1994
... govern- marine resources continues to be harvested by arti-
ment’s ban on bottom trawling during the mon- sanal fishermen using a rich diversity of craft and
soon, and against the earlier High Court judgment gear tested through the centuries.
in favor of Kerala Trawlnet Boat Operator’s...
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Eviscerating the Sea
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the rendering of Kolis as purely Indigenous, practicing a traditional livelihood that is outside history. Across colonial and postcolonial periods, fishers have navigated a complex world of institutional authorities to craft claims based on identity (caste and Indigeneity), sovereignty based on customary use...
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“Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth to Do, Do It with Thy Might”: Artisan Experience in Late Nineteenth Century Freetown
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 August 1995
... industrious European Protestant street.”14 Others became “tailors, barbers, laborers
who could teach a craft.9 and wharf boatmen.”l5 Simultaneously with their
The original settlers, the Black Poor from Eng- increasing fortune in trade, the liberated Africans
land, African...
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Muddy Waters: Coastal Property in India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the boundaries of littoral societies’ claims that have traditionally relied on fishing or livelihoods tied to these waters. References Ahuja Ravi . Pathways of Empire: Circulation, “Public Works,” and Social Space in Colonial Orissa (c. 1780–1914) . Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan , 2009...
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Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 584–599.
Published: 01 December 2005
... to the primacy at ascribes and rationality organizations, nomic formal as often crafted agencies, be development can external institutions by “successful” that implies perspective. “ethnographic” view more functionalist former, second, the a Importantly, from distinct as seen be may bodies, development...
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The Waste-Value Dialectic: Lumpen Urbanization in Contemporary India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., or play working-class mobilizations that can emerge in de-
on the same soil as the nonpoor do.”4 That certain fense of place-based livelihoods.
places and people must disproportionately absorb While there has been little or no attention
the harm associated with various forms of detri- to waste...
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Legal History between the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 349–353.
Published: 01 August 2019
.... Tripoli's propertied classes mostly earned their livelihoods from orchards that they owned and cultivated in the immediate vicinity of the city. In contrast, the wealth of Nablus came from extending credit and extracting surplus product from peasant cultivators in the hinterland. These two contrasting modes...
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On Dankwa's Gift
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 680–685.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and that consist of shifting constellations of relatives, friends, lovers, and male partners of different “knowing women.” As other scholars have shown, such extended queer families are vital for maintaining and renewing livelihoods in situations of precarity. But Dankwa demonstrates in particular how these moving...
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Introduction: Placing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Buddhist Memory, Material Traces, and the Politics of Reinvention in Modern India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that build upon historical and ritual precedents while simultaneously crafting new paradigms within a transnational, postcolonial arena. Taking inspiration from this translocative orientation, the contributors explore precolonial histories of Buddhist movement alongside more recent networks of Buddhist...
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The Two Economies, Primitive Accumulation, and the Government of the State: or, Reflecting on the Politics of the Governed from South Africa
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of subsistence. This produces . . . a curious process in which, on one side, primary producers such as peasants, crafts people, and petty manufacturers lose their land and other means of production, but, on the other, are also provided by governmental agencies with the conditions for meeting their basic needs...
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Bazaars, Merchants, and Trade in Late Antique Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 December 2010
... production important for Eurasian trade. Some of
the agricultural production was not only for local consumption but had a wider distribution
in other markets.
Agricultural Production: Iran and Beyond
The main mode of production and source of income and livelihood in late antique Iran...
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What Makes a Natural Harbor?: Naturalizing Port Development along the Gulf of Kutch, Western India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
... as an underdeveloped state with landward geographical barriers, whose small maritime livelihoods needed welfare. If the imperial imagination subordinated the development of rivers and creeks in Kutch to Bombay, the newly independent Indian government saw little need to maximize economic value and intensively...
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The Ethics of Decolonization: What MENA Social Research Can Learn from the Indigenous Turn
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 December 2024
... social research serves rather than challenges Euro-American political interventions that deform and undermine the lives and livelihoods, not to mention the academic institutions, of those whose worlds we are studying. It is not just about how research questions are framed—what is asked and what...
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Three Watersheds in the History of Energy
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 440–453.
Published: 01 December 2014
... , 1737–70 . Bowring John . Report on Egypt and Candia . London : W. Clowes and Sons , 1840 . Chalcraft John T. The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863–1914 . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . DeLanda Manuel...
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The Political Economy of a Dictatorship: The Case of Pakistan
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 27–35.
Published: 01 August 1981
... and the
communities (as in Punjab). In addition to colonial state. The British, quite ration-
agriculture, these areas had extensive trade, ally, decided to maintain stability by re-
commerce, and craft production (Habib, 1963). inforcing traditional authority. It was
thus that the colonial militarist...
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What Storytellers Were Worth in Mughal India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 570–587.
Published: 01 December 2017
... neglected, it is necessary to do the hard work of factoring the worth of storytellers into the worth of the romance genre that they helped produce. Even more so than the romances themselves, the history of storytellers and their craft has been almost completely neglected by scholars, though Shamsur Rahman...
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Jotirao Phule’s Satyashodh and the Problem of Subaltern Consciousness
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 52–66.
Published: 01 May 2014
...). These metaphorics of weight and im- In this way, Gulamgiri is not just a polemic about
pression reinforce that shudra-atishudra conscious- Aryan enslavement, Brahmanical domination, or
ness is formed by and through Brahmanical craft. even the origins of jatibhed; rather it is a blueprint
Such craft weighs...
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Indian Women's Development: Four Lenses
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 25–29.
Published: 01 May 1986
... is not enhanced even if they bear children, and even there, in the rural extended family, a new
virtually monopolize production of subsistence goods. This appears to bride's security and livelihood depend on her performance. Not pro-
be true in Sugao. If equity between the sexes is considered important...
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Myths, Lies, and Impotence: Structural Adjustment and Male Voice in Egypt
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 321–334.
Published: 01 August 2003
... or herbalists were very popular in these urban
and Western Deserts are propagated as areas where neighborhoods. Men and women both went to them for
people could earn a living through agriculture, fishing, a variety of ailments. They deal with a range of male
small industries, or craft production.41 problems...
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