Author: Kumar, Nita
Title: The Artisans of Banaras : Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1988). orig.c loth, dustwrapper. xix,279 pp. 24x16cm,. Textual graphs & tables. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Popular Culture; History & Anthropology; On Identity, & Other Conclusions; The Chapters & their Argument; The Artisans of Banaras: The Nature of Work; Weavers; Metalworkers; Woodworkers; The Question of Identity: The Relations of Production; The Rhythms of Work; The Identity of an Ansari...of a Kasera...of a Woodworker; The Banaras of the Artisans: The Artisans' Mohallas; The Nature of Banarasipan; The Outer Side: Bahri Alang as Space...as Time;..as Ritual;...as Mood; Bahri Alang for Muslims; The Decline of an Ideal; The Body & Its Pleasures:The Akhara; Akhara Ritual & Philosophy; The Social Organization of the Akhara; The Process of Decline; The Artisans' World of Music: Melas: The Burhva Mangal; The Monsoon Melas; Mandirs & Mazars; Musical Styles; Mehfils; Cutting Off the Nose, & Other Obscenities: The Four Major Festivals; The Nakkatayya of Chaitganj; Bharat Milap & Nag Nathayya; More on the Question of Identity: Caste & Class; Hindu-Muslim Relations; Conclusion; Appendices: Sources & Research Methodology; The Limits of Ethnosociology; Tara Prasad's Bhang Recipe.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Banaras Varanasi, Labor Labour Class, Social Anthropology, Working Classes, Artisans Identity, India South Asia, Popular Culture, Ethnography History, Historical