An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays by Bernard S Cohn

An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays by Bernard S Cohn

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Summary

Concerned with the Indian subcontinent in the colonial period, these essays concentrate on methodology within the disciplines of history and anthropology, particularly as they relate to India, as well as anthropological history.

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An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays by Bernard S Cohn

This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays on colonial and post-colonial India, writings that have been of seminal importance to scholars of the subcontinent since the 1950s. A scholar of history as well as anthropology, Cohn offers readers a unique perspective on the social structure, colonization, and transformation of Indian society.
Bernard S. Cohn is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays and India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.
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ISBN 13 9780195626162
ISBN 10 0195626168
Title An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays
Author Bernard S Cohn
Series Oxford India Paperbacks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1991-01-17
Number of pages 706
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