New Book on Criminal Tribes and Budhan Theatre

[Henry Schwarz]

Friends,

Henry Schwarz's new book is out.

From the publisher's website:

***Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a
Thief*** provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal
tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present.

* Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology
and criminology
* Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control
subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior
* Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under
military
* Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the
discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma
of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests
stereotypes to reclaim their humanity


http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405120576.html


I would greatly encourage you to forward this information to your
university or college library and urge them to acquire it.

Review copies are available. Please contact the publisher directly.

As the book is rather expensive, you may contact the author for
alternate methods of accessing its content.

Please see the striking cover developed from a photograph of Chhara
actors by P. Kerim Friedman.


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[P Naveen]

is the book available in India//?

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