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Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the structuration' of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called working class' has any realistic prospect of unity.

Social classes --- Working class --- Iron and steel workers --- Bhilai (India) --- Social conditions.

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It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Religion --- Fertility cults --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Fécondité --- Rites et cérémonies. --- Cultes --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death. --- Religion. --- Fertility cults. --- 291.23 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Cults, Fertility --- Cults --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Cryomation --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Ritus i cerimònies fúnebres --- Religió --- Fecunditat

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Anthropology seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. This title contains essays that explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work and genocide, and our personal fears and desires.

Anthropology --- Anthropologie --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Anthropology -- Philosophy. --- Anthropology - General --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Philosophie.

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Industrial relations --- Industrial policy --- Labor policy

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Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.

Working class. --- Labor movement.