Family funerals; red tape
Laurie Taylor hears about a new study by anthropologist Akhil Gupta which seeks to understand why Indian state bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty.
Red Tape in India - a major new study by the renowned anthropologist, Akhil Gupta, seeks to understand why state bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty in the world's third largest economy. Laurie Taylor hears about his ethnographic study among officials in charge of development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Why is it that the expansion of government programmes have failed to improve significantly the lives of the poorest? Fellow anthropologist, Dr Alpa Shah, joins the discussion. Also, the sociologist, Kate Woodthorpe explores how funeral arrangements illuminate the modern family.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Kate Woodthorpe
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath and a member of the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) 听
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Paper 鈥淭hrough the Family Lens: How death illuminates the modern family鈥�
Hannah Rumble and Kate Woodthorpe
Presented on 19 November 2012 at the BSA event 鈥淒eath and the Family鈥� organised by the Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group.
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Centre for Death and Society http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
University of Bath
Bath, BA2 7AY
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Tel: 01225 386949
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The Matter of Death: Space, place and materiality
Jenny Hockey, Dr Carol Komarom, Kate Woodthorpe (Editors)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0230224164
ISBN-13: 978-0230224162
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Akhil Gupta
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for India and South Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles
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Red Tape; Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822351102
ISBN-13: 978-0822351108
Alpa Shah
Reader in the Department of Anthropology at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822347652
ISBN-13: 978-0822347651 大象传媒
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British anthropologist Alpa Shah visits a Maoist-controlled region of Jharkhand in eastern India and explores the appeal of the Maoist fighters to the poor communities.
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