University of Edinburgh

School of Social & Political Science

Social Anthropology

2015 – 2016

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords (SCAN10071)

University of Edinburgh

School of Social & Political Science

Social Anthropology

2015 – 2016

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords

(SCAN10071)

Key Information Course Organiser Dr Jacob Copeman Email: Jacob.copeman@ed.ac.uk Room 5.25 Chrystal MacMillan Building, George Square Guidance & Feedback Hours: Mondays 15.15 – 17.00

(Teaching Weeks only) Location Semester 1 Thursdays 16.10 – 18.00 Biomedical Tutorial Room 3

Doorway 3, Medical School Guest Lecturers Dr Delwar Hussain Email: dhussain@exseed.ed.ac.uk Professor Jonathan Spencer Email: jonathan.spencer@ed.ac.uk Course Secretary Lizzie Robertson Email: lizzie.robertson@ed.ac.uk Undergraduate Teaching Office Assessment Deadlines Padlet Exercise: 12 noon Tuesday 13 October

2015

Long Essay: 12 noon Thursday 3 December 2015

CONTENTS Page

Summary 1

Course Plan 1

Course Lectures and Readings 2 – 9

Assessment 10

What is Padlet? 10

Creating a Padlet Wall 11

Long Essay 11

Attendance 11

Communications 11

Summer Readings 9

Further Relevant Texts 9

Appendix 1 – Submission & Assessment Information

Word Count Penalties 12

ELMA: Submission and Return of Coursework 12

Return of Feedback 13

The Operation of Lateness Penalties 13

How to Submit a Lateness penalty Waiver Form 13

Plagiarism Guidance for Students 15

Data Protection Guidance for Students 15

Appendix 2 – General Information

Students with Disabilities 16

Learning Resources for Undergraduates 16

Discussing Sensitive Topics 17

External Examiner 17

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 1

Summary

This course provides students with a solid understanding of important contemporary

debates in the study of South Asian public culture. Introducing key themes through

critical and current ethnographic work, this course focuses on the tangible public forms

that global cultural flows, political economies and social formations take. This

emphasis on contemporary public culture allows a concrete consideration of abstract

and changing social and cultural forces that define the region. The course is informed

by the existing concerns in the anthropology of South Asia but focuses on areas largely

neglected by it.

Inspired by Raymond Williams' 'keywords' approach to culture and society, this course

examines the subcontinent from unexpected angles by gathering key ethnographic

readings under conceptual keywords to be explored empirically and theoretically. The

course approaches the region as an integrated socio-cultural whole, rather than a set

of self-contained nation-states.

Course Plan

Week Date Keyword

1 24.09.2015 Publicity & Nation

2 01.10.2015 Display

3 08.10.2015 Superstition

4 15.10.2015 Duplicate

5 22.10.2015 Democracy (JS)

6 29.10.2015 Secularism (JS)

7 05.11.2015 Border (DH)

8 12.11.2015 Guru

9 19.11.2015 Sex

10 26.11.2015 Name

11 03.12.2015 Protest (DH)

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 2

Weekly Readings = both seminar texts plus any 2 lecture readings. A Resource List (Talis Aspire) is available for this course.

Week 1: PUBLICITY and NATION (24 September)

Lecture – Publicity

* Appadurai, Arjun and Carol A. Breckenridge. (1988). ‘Editor’s Comment’ & ‘Why

Public Culture?’ Public Culture 1(1): 1-9.

* Mazzarella, William (2005) ‘Public Culture, Still’. Biblio: A Review of Books (Special

Issue), X (9-10), Sept.-Oct.

https://www.academia.edu/757360/Public_Culture_Still_Tracing_the_Trajectory

_of_Indian_Public_Culture

* Williams, Raymond. 2010 [1976]. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.

London: Fontana Press.

* Cody, Francis (2011) ‘Publics and Politics’, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 40: 37–52.

Lecture – Nation

* Mohammad-Arif, Aminah and Blandine Ripert (Eds) (2014) Ideas of South Asia:

Symbolic Representations and Political Uses. SAMAJ 10.

https://samaj.revues.org/3699

* Devji, Faisal (2013). Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a political idea. London: Hurst.

* Jaffrelot, Christophe (2015) The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience.

London: Hurst.

* Spencer, Jonathan (2008) ‘A Nationalism without Politics? The illiberal

consequences of liberal institutions in Sri Lanka', Third World Quarterly, 29, 3:

611-629.

* Khilnani, Sunil (1997). The Idea of India. Delhi: Penguin.

* Pinney, Christopher (1997) ‘The Nation (Un) Pictured? Chromolithography and

“Popular” Politics in India, 1878-1995’ Critical Inquiry 23, 4: 834-867.

* Jha, Prashant (2014) Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal.

London: Hurst. E-book available.

* Wickramasinghe, Nira (2006) Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History. London: Hurst.

* Holt, John Clifford (Ed.) (2011) The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics.

Durham: Duke University Press. Section 4. (E-book available)

* Ludden, David (2002) India and South Asia: A Short History. London: Oneworld.

* Guhathakurta, Meghna and Willem van Schendel (Eds.) (2013) The Bangladesh

Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press. Selections

from sections 4-6. (E-book available)

Week 2: DISPLAY (1 October)

Lecture

* Hoek, L. (2013). Cut-pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh.

Columbia University Press. Selections. OR Hoek, Lotte (2010) 'Cut-Pieces as

Stag Film: Bangladeshi Pornography in Action Cinema', Third Text, 24: 1, 135-

148.

* Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. (2004). Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in

Colonial and Postcolonial India. New York: Columbia University Press.

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 3

Lecture continued

* Jain, Kajri. (2007). Gods in the Bazaar: The Economy of Indian Calendar Art.

Durham: Duke University Press.

* Vidal, Denis (2006), ‘Darsan’, https://www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-

institute/keywords/file24803.pdf

* Srinivas, Smriti (2008) In the presence of Sai Baba: body, city, and memory in a

global religious movement. Brill. Chapter 3 ‘The sense of the presence’ (76-110)

* Dwyer, Rachel. 2014. Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary

India. London: Reaktion Books.

* Copeman J (2013) ‘The art of bleeding: Memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood’.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute s149–s171.

Seminar

* Pinney, C. (2008) ‘Accidental Ramdevji’ in Jyotindra Jain ed. Indian Popular Culture.

Mumbai: Marg http://cscs.res.in/dataarchive/textfiles/textfile.2008-09-

18.3427893094/file.

* Mazzarella, W. and R. Kaur (2009) ‘Between sedition and seduction: Thinking

censorship in South Asia’. In R. Kaur and W. Mazzarella (eds.) Censorship in

South Asia. Indiana University Press.

http://www.academia.edu/757361/Between_Sedition_and_Seduction_Thinking

_Censorship_In_South_Asia

Week 3: SUPERSTITION (8 October)

Lecture

* Srinivas, Tulasi (nd forthcoming), ‘Doubtful Illusions: magic, wonder and a critical

practice of virtue in the Sathya Sai movement’. (Available from lecturer)

* Siegel, L. (1991). Net of magic: wonders and deceptions in India. University of

Chicago Press. (Chapter ‘On the stage now: Mirrors and water’ 223-356)

* Quack, Johannes (2012). Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism

of Religion in India. New York: Oxford University Press. All or selections (ebook

available), or Quack, Johannes (2012) ‘Organised Atheism in India: An

Overview’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27:1, 67-85.

* Copeman, J & Johannes Quack (2015) ‘Godless people and dead bodies’, Social

Analysis 59, 2: 40-61.

* Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2008), ‘The power of superstition in public life in India’,

Economic and political weekly. May: 16-19.

* Lamont, Peter & Crispin Bates (2007) ‘Conjuring images of India in nineteenth-

century Britain’, Social History, 32:3, 308-324. Link:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071020701425411

* Ghosh, Amitav (1986), The circle of reason. Roli books.

* Copeman, J (2009) Veins of devotion: Blood donation and religious experience in

North India. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Chapter 3 ‘The

reform of the gift’. (50-76)

* Cohen, L. (2007) ‘Song for Pushkin’. Daedalus 136: 103–15.

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 4

Seminar

* Chatterjee, Partha. (1999) ‘Modernity, democracy and a political negotiation of

death’. South Asia Research 19: 103–19.

* Copeman, J & Deepa Reddy (2012) ‘The Didactic Death: Publicity, Instruction and

Body Donation’ HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2, no. 2: 59–83.

Week 4: DUPLICATE (15 October)

Lecture

* Cohen, L. (nd forthcoming) ‘Duplicate’. (Available from lecturer)

* Govil, Nitin & Eric Hoyt (2014) ‘Thieves of Bombay: United Artists, Colonial Copyright,

and Film Piracy in the 1920s’. BioScope 5(1) 5–27.

* Nakassis, C. V. (2012). ‘Counterfeiting what? Aesthetics of brandedness and BRAND

in Tamil Nadu, India’. Anthropological Quarterly, 85(3), 701-721.

* Duschinski, H. (2010). ‘Reproducing regimes of impunity: fake encounters and the

informalization of everyday violence in Kashmir Valley’. Cultural Studies 24, 1:

110-132.

* Staples, James. (2003) ‘Disguise, Revelation and Copyright. Disassembling the

South Indian Leper’. J. Roy. anthrop. Inst 9, 295-315.

* Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. 2007. ‘Our Gods, Their Museums’: The Contrary Careers of

India’s Art Objects. Art History 30(4): 628-657.

* Vikram Chandra. (2000). ‘The Cult of Authenticity’. Boston Review (February/March):

42-49.

Seminar

* Guha-Thakurta, T. (2009) ‘Careers of the copy: traveling replicas in colonial and

postcolonial India’. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association

of Social Anthropologists of the U.K. and Commonwealth, ‘Archaeological and

Anthropological Imaginations’, Bristol University, April 8, 2009.

http://www.theasa.org/publications/firth.shtml#firth09

* Sundaram, R. (2009). Pirate modernity: media urbanism in Delhi. Delhi: Routledge.

Chapter 3 (105-138)

Week 5: SECULARISM (22 October)

Lecture

* Asad, T. (2003) ‘Introduction: Thinking about Secularism’ in T. Asad Formations of

the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Stanford: Stanford University Press,

pp. 1-17.

* Chatterjee, P. (1995) ‘Religious Minorities and the Secular State: Reflections on an

Indian Impasse’ Public Culture 8: 11-39

* Iqtidar, H. (2011) ‘Secularism Beyond the State: The ‘State’ and the ‘Market’ in

Islamist Imagination’ Modern Asian Studies, 45(3): , 2011 [reprinted in Osella, F

and C. Osella eds., Islamic Reformism in South Asia, Cambridge University

Press, 2012]

* Kaviraj. S. (2013) ‘Languages of Secularity’ Economic and Political Weekly 48(50)

50, December 14,

* Madan, T.N. (1987) ‘Secularism in Its Place’, Journal of Asian Studies, 46(4): 747–

59

* Needham, A. and R. Sunder Rajan (eds) (2007) The Crisis of Secularism in India.

* Spencer, J. et al (2014) Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative

Ethnography of War and Peace. London: Pluto [e-book]

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 5

Seminar

* Acevedo, D.D. (2015) ‘Divine Sovereignty, Indian Property Law, and the Dispute over

the Padmanabhaswamy Temple’ Modern Asian Studies. [available as Firstview

at: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0026749X14000535]

* Ikegame, A. (2012) ‘The governing guru: Hindu mathas in liberalising India’. In

Copeman, Jacob and Aya Ikegame, eds. The guru in South Asia: New

interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Routledge. [e-book]

Week 6: DEMOCRACY (29 October)

Lecture

* Banerjee, M (2014) Why India Votes London: Routledge [e-book]

* Khilnani, S. (1997) ‘Democracy’ Chp. 1 in S. Khilnani The Idea of India. London:

Hamish Hamilton, pp.15-60.

* Michelutti, L. (2007) ‘The vernacularisation of democracy: popular politics and

political participation in North India’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

(N.S.) 13: 639-656

* Michelutti, L. (2014) ‘Kingship without kings in northern India’ n A. Piliavasky (ed)

Patronage as Politics in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

pp. 283-302

* Spencer, J. (2007) Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and Violence in

South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [e-book]

* Witsoe, J. (2011), ‘Rethinking Postcolonial Democracy: An Examination of the Politics

of Lower-Caste Empowerment in North India’. American Anthropologist, 113:

619–631

Seminar

* Banerjee, M. (2007). ‘Sacred elections’. Economic and Political Weekly, 1556-1562

* Piliavsky, A. (2015) ‘India’s human democracy’ Anthropology Today 31(4): 22-25

Week 7: BORDER (5 November)

Lecture

* Abraham, Itty and van Schendel, Willem (2005) Illicit Flows and Criminal Things:

States, Borders and the Other Side of Globalization. Bloomington: Indiana

University Press [Read Introduction]

* Appadurai, Arjun (1981) “Gastro-Politics in Hindu South Asia” in American

Ethnologist 8 (3): pp.494 - 511

* Aretxaga, Begona (2003) “Maddening States” in Annual Review of Anthropology 32:

pp. 393 - 410

* Bear, Laura (2007) Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and

the Intimate Historical Self. New York: Columbia University Press [Read

Introduction]

* Borneman, John (1998) “Grenzregime (border regime): the Wall and its Aftermath” in

Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers. Wilson, Thomas

and Donnan, Hastings (ed) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

* Brown, Wendy (2010) Walled States, Waning Sovereignties. New York: Zone Books

* Chatterji, Joya (1994) Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition. 1932–

1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Read Introduction]

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 6

Lecture continued

* Dasgupta, Anindita (2001) “Denial and Resistance: Sylheti Partition ‘Refugees’ in

Assam” in Contemporary South Asia 10 (3): pp. 343 - 360

* Didier, Brian (2004) “Conflict Self-Inflicted: Dispute and the Threat of Violence in an

Indian Muslim Community” in Journal of Asian Studies 63 (1): pp.61 – 80.

Seminar

* Butalia, Urvashi (2000) The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.

Durham: Duke University Press (Read Introduction)

* Hussain, Delwar (2009) “Life and death in the Bangladesh-India margins” in Open

Democracy:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/life-and-death-in-the-bangladesh-india-

margins

Week 8: GURU (12 November)

Lecture

* Lucia, Amanda (2014) Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a global embrace.

University of California Press. All or selections, and/or Lucia, Amanda (2014)

‘Innovative Gurus: Tradition and Change in Contemporary

Hinduism’ International Journal of Hindu Studies 18, 2: 221–263

* Srinivas, S. (1999) ‘Devotion and defiance in fan activity’, in Vasudevan, R. (ed.),

Making meaning in Indian cinema, Delhi.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=D0CF014BDD8178B5

5315729B687BDBDE?doi=10.1.1.495.9668&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

* McKean, Lise (1996) Divine enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu nationalist movement.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

* Srinivas, T. (2010) Winged faith: Rethinking globalization and religious pluralism

through the Sathya Sai movement. New York: Columbia University Press.

* Ikegame, A. (2012) ‘The governing guru: Hindu mathas in liberalising India’. In

Copeman, Jacob and Aya Ikegame, eds. The guru in South Asia: New

interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Routledge. (46-63)

* Copeman, J. (2009) Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in

North India. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Chapters 1 (1-36) and 6

(136-148).

Seminar

* Bachrach, Emilia (2014) ‘Is Guruji Online? Internet advice forums and transnational

encounters in a Vaishnav sectarian community’ or Scheifinger, Heinz (2014) in

A.K. Sahoo & J.G. de Kruijf (eds) Indian transnationalism online: New

perspectives on diaspora. Ashgate. (103-120, 163-176)

* Pinch, William (2012) ‘The slave guru: Masters, commanders, and disciples in early

modern South Asia.” In The guru in South Asia, edited by Jacob Copeman and

Aya Ikegame. (64-79)

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 7

Week 9: SEX (19 November)

Lecture

* Cohen, L (2011) ‘Style’ in Raka Ray (ed), Handbook of gender. Oxford University

Press. (249-268)

* Saria, Vaibhav (2015) ‘The pregnant hijra: Laughter, dead babies, and invaluable

love’ in Veena Das and Clara Han (eds) Living and dying in the contemporary

world. University of California Press. (Page numbers not yet known – the book

is not quite out. If book not published by time of lecture, chapter will be available

from lecturer).

* Hoek, Lotte (2010) ‘Unstable Celluloid: Film Projection and the Cinema Audience in

Bangladesh’. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 1(1): 49-66.

* Ali, Kamran Asdar (2004) ‘Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity’. Social Text

78: 123-145.

* Mody, Perveez (2002) ‘Love and the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi’. Modern Asian

Studies 36(1): 223-256.

* Das, Veena (2007) Life and words: Violence and the descent into the ordinary.

University of California Press. (Chapter 2 ‘The Figure of the Abducted Woman:

The Citizen as Sexed’ 18-37)

* Srivastava, Sanjay (2007) Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption

in India. New Delhi: Routledge.

Seminar

* Marriott, McKim (2002 [1966]) ‘The feast of love’ in Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb

(eds) Everyday Life in South Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

https://www.academia.edu/10003962/Feast_of_Love_by_McKim_Marriott

* Cohen, Lawrence (1995) ‘Holi in Banaras and the mahaland of modernity’. GLQ 2:

399-424

Week 10: NAME (26 November)

Lecture

* Pandey, G. (2013). A history of prejudice: race, caste, and difference in India and the

United States. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7 (‘The persistence of

prejudice’ 194-220). Ebook available.

* Bodenhorn, Barbara & Gabriele vom Bruck (2006) ‘“Entangled in Histories”: An

Introduction to the Anthropology of Names and Naming’ in Gabriele vom Bruck

and Barbara Bodenhorn (eds.) The Anthropology of Names and Naming.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1-30)

* Banerjee, M. (2008). ‘Introduction’, in M. Banerjee (ed.) Muslim portraits: Everyday

lives in India. Yoda Press/Indiana University Press. (xii-Xv).

* Chaturvedi, Vinayak (2003) ‘Vinayak & me: Hindutva and the politics of naming,

Social History 28, 2: 155-173

* Rahman, Tariq (2013) ‘Personal Names of Pakistani Muslims: An Essay on

Onomastics’. Pakistan Perspectives 18, 1: 33-57.

* Naipaul, V.S. (1976) ‘Jamshed into Jimmy’ in The overcrowded barracoon. London:

Penguin (52-59).

* Hansen, Thomas Blom (2001) Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in

Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 8

Seminar

* Lee, Joel (2015) ‘Jagdish, Son of Ahmad: Dalit Religion and Nominative Politics in

Lucknow.’ South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 11.

* Hansen, Thomas Blom (2006) ‘Where Names Fall Short: Names as Performances

in Contemporary Urban South Africa’ in Gabriele vom Bruck and Barbara

Bodenhorn (eds.) The Anthropology of Names and Naming. (200-224)

Week 11: PROTEST (3 December)

Lecture

* Das, Veena (1990) (ed) Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in

South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press [Read Introduction]

* Das, Veena (2010) “Engaging the Life of the Other: Love and Everyday Life” in

Ordinary Ethics. Lambeck, Michael (ed) (2010) New York: Fordham

* Freitag, Sandra (1989) Collective Action and Community – Public Arenas and the

Emergence of Communalism in North India. Berkley: University of California

Press [Read Introduction]

* D'Costa, Bina (2010) Nation building, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia. London:

Routledge [Read Introduction]

* Khan, Zilur Rahman (1985) “Islam and Bengali Nationalism” in Asian Survey 25 (8):

pp. 834 – 851

* Linton, Suzannah, (2010) “Completing the Circle: Accountability for the Crime of the

1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation” in Criminal Law Forum 21: pp 191 – 311

* Ludden, David, "The Politics of Independence in Bangladesh," Economic & Political

Weekly, Issue: VOL XLVI NO. 35 August 27, 2011

* Maniruzzaman Talukder (1975) “Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution?” in The

Journal of Asian Studies 34 (04): pp 891-911

* Mookherjee, Nayanika (2006) ‘Remembering to Forget: Public Secrecy and Memory

of Sexual Violence in Bangladesh’ in Journal of Royal Anthropological

Institute, 12(2): 433-450

* Riaz, Ali (2003) ‘God Willing: The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh’ in

Comparative Studies of South Asia and the Middle East 23 (1&2): pp.301 - 320

Seminar

* Mookherjee, Nayanika (2008) ‘Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the body-politic of

the raped woman and the nation in Bangladesh’. Feminist Review, Special Issue

on War 88(1): 36-53.

* Seabrook, Jeremy (2001) Freedom Unfinished – Fundamentalism and Popular

Resistance in Bangladesh Today. London: Zed books (Read Introduction)

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Summer Readings (also relevant throughout the course)

* Appadurai, Arjun and Carol A. Breckenridge. (1988). ‘Editor’s Comment’ & ‘Why

Public Culture?’ Public Culture 1(1): 1-9.

* Dwyer, Rachel (Ed.) (n.d.) Keywords in South Asian Studies

https://www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/keywords/

* Jeffery, Patricia & Roger Jeffery (2012) ‘South Asia: Intimacy and Identities, Politics

and Poverty’ in Richard Fardon et al. (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Social

Anthropology. London: Sage. (Library e-book).

* Patterson, A. (2007). ‘Keywords: Raymond Williams and Others’. ESC: English

Studies in Canada, 30(4), 66-80.

* Durant, A. (2006). ‘Raymond Williams's Keywords: investigating meanings “offered,

felt for, tested, confirmed, asserted, qualified, changed”’. Critical Quarterly, 48(4),

1-26.

* Cody, Francis (2011) ‘Publics and Politics’, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 40: 37–52.

Further Relevant Texts

* Mohammad-Arif, Aminah and Blandine Ripert (Eds) (2014) Ideas of South Asia:

Symbolic Representations and Political Uses. SAMAJ 10.

https://samaj.revues.org/3699

* Mines, D. P., & Lamb, S. E. (Eds.). (2002). Everyday Life in South Asia. Indiana

University Press.

* Jeffrey, Craig & John Harriss (2014) Keywords for Modern India. Oxford: OUP.

* Williams, R. (1985). Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society. Oxford: OUP.

* Spencer, J. (2012). ‘Performing democracy and violence, agonism and community,

politics and not politics in Sri Lanka’. Geoforum, 43(4), 725-731.

* Banerjee, M. (2007). ‘Sacred elections’. Economic and Political Weekly, 1556-1562.

* Mazzarella, W. (2003). Shoveling smoke: Advertising and globalization in

contemporary India. Duke University Press.

* Kaur, R., & Mazzarella, W. (eds.) (2009). Censorship in South Asia: cultural

regulation from sedition to seduction. Indiana University Press.

* Hussain, D. (2014). ‘The State of Relief on the Bangladesh-India Border’. South Asia

Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, (9).

* Reddy, D. S. (2005). ‘The ethnicity of caste’. Anthropological Quarterly, 78(3), 543-

584.

* Hoek, L. (2013). Cut-pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh.

Columbia University Press.

* Copeman, J. (2013) ‘Introduction: South Asian Tissue Economies’. Contemporary

South Asia 21, 3: 195-213.

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords 2015 – 16 10

ASSESSMENT

Students will be assessed by:

(i) A mid-term Padlet Exercise of 1,000-1,500 words, plus bibliography, due

Tuesday 13 October 2015: this carries a weighting of 30% towards the final

overall mark for the course

(ii) A long essay of 2500 – 3000 words, plus bibliography, due on Thursday 3

December 2015: this carries a weighting of 70% towards the final overall mark

for the course

What is Padlet?

Padlet is an online notice board where you create a ‘wall’ that allows you to collect

links to a variety of video, audio, image and text based web sources.

This exercise is designed so that you may connect a particular theme or issue

(‘keyword’) covered in the course to wider anthropological debates and to critically

reflect on a range of digital sources. The exercise consists of:

(i) Creating a padlet with multimedia examples relating to a chosen ‘keyword’ (it’s

up to you which one, though it probably makes sense to stick to keywords from

the first half of the course), and

(ii) (ii) Writing a short summary and reflection on those examples -- also on the

Padlet wall.

Padlet walls must include a bibliography.

The padlet will be assessed under the following criteria:

Does it demonstrate varied postings from a range of sources?

Are postings and the reflections on them indicative of a good level of engagement

with the course themes?

Does it demonstrate breadth of understanding of the concepts covered?

Does it demonstrate knowledge of and use of the literature?

Have relevant key references been used?

Entries on the padlet wall are time stamped and any additions to the wall after the

assessment deadline will not be marked and will be treated in the same way as late

submission of other kinds of coursework (please see Hons. handbook for further details

of late submission penalties).

Students are required to submit:

(i) A screenshot of their padlet, and

(ii) A url link to their padlet wall in an email to the course secretary before the

deadline.

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Creating a Padlet Wall

Go to: http://padlet.com/

Select ‘LOGIN OR SIGN UP from the top right hand corner of the screen

Select SIGN UP and sign up using your ed.ac.uk account

On the Home Screen select ‘Build a wall’

You will be asked to give your wall a title and description.

Please use your UUN as a wall title (so it can be marked anonymously)

You are now ready to start posting to your wall.

Remember:

For each link that you post add a short bit of text to describe the websites, audio files,

images and videos (basically anything you can find online) that you have linked to.

These few lines should: interpret your examples e.g. explain what you think is

interesting about themand what concept(s) you think they represent or illustrate and

how; reflect on how it is relevant to the course theme(s) and explain how it adds to

the debates we have considered; illustrate how it relates to relevant literature.

Long Essay

The purpose of this part of the assessment is to present a more substantial

engagement with a particular keyword. Essay titles may be created by the student in

consultation with the course organiser.

Please refer to Appendix 1 for additional information about assessment and

submission procedures.

Attendance

Attendance and participation in the lectures and discussion are essential for

developing an understanding of the topics.

Communications:

You are strongly encouraged to use email for routine communication with lecturers. We

shall also use email to communicate with you, e.g., to assign readings for the second

hour of each class. All students are provided with email addresses on the university

system, if you are not sure of your address, which is based on your matric number,

check your EUCLID database entry using the Student Portal.

This is the ONLY email address we shall use to communicate with you. Please note

that we will NOT use ‘private’ email addresses such as yahoo or hotmail; it is therefore

essential that you check your university email regularly, preferably each day.

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APPENDIX 1 – SUBMISSION & ASSESSMENT INFORMATION

Word Count Penalties

Your South Asian Public Culture: Keywords Padlet exercise should be 1500 words

(excluding bibliography). Padlet exercises above 1500 words will be penalised using

the ordinary level criterion of 1 mark for every 20 words over length: anything between

1501 and 1520 words will lose one mark, anything between 1521 and 1540 two marks,

and so on. Penalties will also be applied in the same manner for the long essay for

essays submitted over the 3000 word limit.

You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit. However, you should

note that shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be

reflected in your mark.

ELMA: Submission and Return of Coursework

Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system, ELMA. You

will not be required to submit a paper copy of your work.

Marked coursework, grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA. You will

not receive a paper copy of your marked course work or feedback.

For information, help and advice on submitting coursework and accessing feedback,

please see the ELMA wiki at https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/SPSITWiki/ELMA

Further detailed guidance on the essay deadline and a link to the wiki and submission

page will be available on the course Learn page. The wiki is the primary source of

information on how to submit your work correctly and provides advice on approved file

formats, uploading cover sheets and how to name your files correctly.

When you submit your work electronically, you will be asked to tick a box confirming

that your work complies with university regulations on plagiarism. This confirms that

the work you have submitted is your own.

Occasionally, there can be technical problems with a submission. We request that you

monitor your university student email account in the 24 hours following the deadline

for submitting your work. If there are any problems with your submission the course

secretary will email you at this stage.

We undertake to return all coursework within 15 working days of submission. This time

is needed for marking, moderation, second marking and input of results. If there are

any unanticipated delays, it is the course organiser’s responsibility to inform you of the

reasons.

All our coursework is assessed anonymously to ensure fairness: to facilitate

this process put your Examination number (on your student card), not your

name or student number, on your coursework or cover sheet.

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Return of Feedback

Feedback for coursework will be returned on the following dates:

Padlet Exercise (via ELMA) = 03 November 2015

Long Essay (via ELMA) = -5 January 2016

The Operation of Lateness Penalties

Unlike in Years 1 and 2, NO EXTENSIONS ARE GRANTED WITH RESPECT TO THE

SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR ANY ASSESSED WORK At HONOURS LEVEL.

Managing deadlines is a basic life-skill that you are expected to have acquired by the

time you reach Honours. Timely submission of all assessed items (coursework,

essays, project reports, etc.) is a vitally important responsibility at this stage in your

university career. Unexcused lateness can put at risk your prospects of proceeding to

Senior Honours and can damage your final degree grade.

If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be

deducted for each calendar day that work is late, up to a maximum of five calendar

days (25 marks). Thereafter, a mark of zero will be recorded. There is no grace period

for lateness and penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline. For

example, if the deadline is Tuesday at 12 noon, work submitted on Tuesday at

12.01pm will be marked as one day late, work submitted at 12.01pm on Wednesday

will be marked as two days late, and so on.

Failure to submit an item of assessed work will result in a mark of zero, with potentially

very serious consequences for your overall degree class, or no degree at all. It is

therefore always in your interest to submit work, even if very late.

Please be aware that all work submitted is returned to students with a provisional mark

and without applicable penalties in the first instance. The mark you receive on ELMA

is therefore subject to change following the consideration of the Lateness Penalty

Waiver Panel (please see below for further information) and the Board of Examiners.

How to Submit a Lateness Penalty Waiver Form (LPW)

If there are extenuating circumstances beyond your control which make it essential for

you to submit work after the deadline you must fill in a ‘Lateness Penalty Waiver’ (LPW)

form to state the reason for your lateness. This is a request for any applicable penalties

to be removed and will be considered by the Lateness Penalty Waiver Panel.

Before submitting an LPW, please consider carefully whether your circumstances are

(or were) significant enough to justify the lateness. Such circumstances should be

serious and exceptional (e.g. not a common cold or a heavy workload). Computer

failures are not regarded as justifiable reason for late submission. You are expected

to regularly back-up your work and allow sufficient time for uploading it to ELMA.

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You should submit the LPW form and supply an expected date of submission as soon

as you are able to do so, and preferably before the deadline. Depending on the

circumstances, supporting documentation may be required, so please be prepared to

provide this where possible.

LPW forms can be found in a folder outside your SSO’s office, on online at:

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/assessment_and_regulation

s/coursework_requirements/coursework_requirements_honours

Forms should be returned by email or, if possible, in person to your SSO. They will

sign the form to indicate receipt and will be able to advise you if you would like further

guidance or support.

Please Note: Signing the LPW form by either your SSO or Personal Tutor only

indicates acknowledgment of the request, not the waiving of lateness penalties. Final

decisions on all marks rest with Examination Boards.

There is a dedicated SSO for students in each subject area in SPS. To find out who

your SSO is, and how to contact them, please find your home subject area on the table

below:

Subject Area

Name of SSO Email Phone Chrystal

MacMillan Building

Politics Irena Coubrough

Irena.Coubrough@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 4253

Room 1.05,

International Relations

Rebecca Shade rebecca.shade@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 3896

Room 1.05,

Social Anthropology

Vanessa Feldberg

vanessa.feldberg@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3933

Room 1.04,

Social Policy Louise Angus L.Angus@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3923

Room 1.08,

Social Work Jane Marshall jane.marshall@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3912

Room 1.07,

Sociology Karen Dargo Karen.Dargo@ed.ac.uk 0131 651 1306

Room 1.03,

Sustainable Development

Sue Renton sue.renton@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 6958

Room 1.09,

If you are a student from another School, you should submit your LPW to the SSO for

the subject area of the course, Vanessa Feldberg.

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Plagiarism Guidance for Students: Avoiding Plagiarism: Material you submit for assessment, such as your essays, must be your own work. You can, and should, draw upon published work, ideas from lectures and class discussions, and (if appropriate) even upon discussions with other students, but you must always make clear that you are doing so. Passing off anyone else’s work (including another student’s work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism and will be punished severely. When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own. All submissions will be run through ‘Turnitin’, our plagiarism detection software. Turnitin compares every essay against a constantly-updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work. Assessed work that contains plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero, and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to the College Academic Misconduct Officer. In either case, the actions taken will be noted permanently on the student's record. For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Services’ website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/academic-services/students/undergraduate/discipline/plagiarism Data Protection Guidance for Students: In most circumstances, students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living, identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. The document, Personal Data Processed by Students, provides an explanation of why this is the case. It can be found, with advice on data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living, identifiable individuals, on the Records Management section of the University website at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/records-management-section/data-protection/guidance-policies/dpforstudents

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APPENDIX 2 – GENERAL INFORMATION

Students with Disabilities.

The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities (including those with specific

learning difficulties such as dyslexia) and is working to make all its courses as

accessible as possible. If you have a disability special needs which means that you

may require adjustments to be made to ensure access to lectures, tutorials or exams,

or any other aspect of your studies, you can discuss these with your Student Support

Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures.

You can also contact the Student Disability Service, based on the University of

Edinburgh, Third Floor, Main Library, You can find their details as well as information

on all of the support they can offer at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-disability-service

Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD)

provides resources and workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their

learning skills and develop effective study techniques. Resources and workshops

cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading, note making,

essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques.

The study development resources are housed on 'LearnBetter' (undergraduate), part

of Learn, the University's virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD

Study Development web page to enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduates

Workshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities, have

discussions, exchange strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes

long and held on Wednesday afternoons at 1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is

available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above).

Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the

MyEd booking system. Each workshop opens for booking 2 weeks before the date of

the workshop itself. If you book and then cannot attend, please cancel in advance

through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To be fair to all students,

anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from

signing up for future events).

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you

have specific questions about your own approach to studying, working more

effectively, strategies for improving your learning and your academic work. Please

note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so they

cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read

students' work.

To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email

iad.study@ed.ac.uk

(For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language

Teaching Centre).

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Discussing Sensitive Topics:

This course addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or, in some

cases, distressing. You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any

topics that you may feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course

convenor and/or your Personal Tutor.

For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student

Counselling Service, http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-counselling

External Examiner

The External Examiner for the Social Anthropology Honours programme is: Dr Adam

Reed, University of St Andrews.