In the Time of Trees and Sorrows

by Gold, Ann Grodzins; Gujar, Bhoju Ram

• ISBN13: 9780822328087
• ISBN10: 0822328089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore."--Ramachandra Guha, author of "The Unquiet Woods" and "Environmentalism: A Global History"

Author Biography

Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Note on Language	ix
Preface: ``There Are No Princes Now''	xi
Acknowledgments	xxi
The Past of Nature and the Nature of the Past	1	(29)
Voice	30	(23)
Place	53	(25)
Memory	78	(27)
Shoes	105	(21)
Court	126	(36)
Homes	162	(49)
Fields	211	(30)
Jungle	241	(36)
Imports	277	(48)
Appendix: Selected Trees and Plants Mentioned in Interviews	325	(2)
Notes	327	(42)
Glossary	369	(4)
References	373	(24)
Index	397