November 8, 2009
Weekly Book List, November 9, 2009
ANTHROPOLOGY
Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India
by Anand Pandian (Duke University Press; 325 pages; $84.95
hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Combines archival and ethnographic
perspectives in a study of the Piramalai Kallar, a caste that has
been stigmatized as a "criminal tribe."
Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in
Post-Socialist Russia by Tova Hojdestrand (Cornell
University Press; 256 pages; $59.95 hardcover,
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