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Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition: Branding the Potters of Kolkata

By Geir Heierstad
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By Geir Heierstad
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Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata’s Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste. This group of artisans turned artists do not display passive responses to colonial and capitalist encounters but engage actively with the modern and economic developments of society at large, redefining the concept of caste identity in the process. Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Il...

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Social SciencesAnthropology & ArchaeologyAsian & Asian American StudiesSocio-Cultural AnthropologySocio-Cultural Anthropology - General & MiscellaneousAsian Studies - South Asia - India