On the Banks of the Ganga When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River

Name: On the Banks of the Ganga When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River
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ISBN: 9780472068081

ISBN-10: 0472068083

ISBN-13: 9780472068081

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kelly D. Alley

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In this rich ethnographic study, Kelly D. Alley sheds light on debates about water uses, wastewater management, and the meanings of waste and sacred power. On the Banks of the Ganga analyzes the human predicaments that result from the accumulation and disposal of waste by tracing how citizens of India interpret the impact of wastewater flows on a sacred river and on their own cultural practices. Alley investigates ethno-semantic, discursive, and institutional data to flesh out the interplay between religious, scientific, and official discourses about the river Ganga. Using a new outward layering methodology, she points out that anthropological analysis must separate the historical and…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Field Methods and Layers of Data



Contours of the Geographic, Cultural, and Theoretical Fields



The Polyvalency of Purity and Pollution



The Power of Ganga



Sacred Purity and Uncleanness



Purity and Flow



Defilement and Fouling in Colonial Law



Pollution and the Emergence of Judicial Activism



The Institutions of Wastewater Management



Contesting Water Quality and Mapping Wastewater



Transcendence and Immanence



Conclusion: Toward a Paradigm of Discourses and Powers


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index