Village Voices

Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9266-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Gewicht: 250 g

This book sets out in detail, and in a very engaging manner, the thrills as well as the difficulties involved in living with and at the same time studying rural societies. A unique feature of this absorbing account is that it documents forty years of change (both positive and negative) in two villages of south India by the same team of researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Epstein, Scarlett

Suryanarayana, A P

Thimmegowda, T

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Village Studies with a Difference - T Scarlett Epstein
PART ONE: EXPERIENCES OF A RESEARCH ASSISTANT - A P Suryananrayana
My First Experience of Village Life
PART TWO: AN INSIDER'S VIEWS - T Thimmegowda
Wangala's Traditional Social System
How Wangala's Economy has Changed since 1954
How Wangala's Political and Cultural Practices have Changed
The Pros and Cons of Wangala's Socio-Economic Development
PART THREE: A RESEARCHER'S VIEWS - T Scarlett Epstein
The Preliminaries of a Field Study
The Impact of Canal Irrigation on Wangala and Dalena, 1954-56
Re-exposure to Mysore Villages in 1970
Predictions Based on Micro-Society Studies
Another Re-Study in the 1990s
How the Two Villages have Changed
Economic Change Factors
Political Change Factors
New Lives and Old Traditions
Predictions: Wrong and Right
PART FOUR: THE WAY AHEAD - T Scarlett Epstein and T Thimmegowda
What the Future Holds
Appendices
Glossary