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Orissa in 1959
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A Social Anthropology of Politics
"F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and...
In the village of Bisipara in eastern India, an anthropologist is witness to a drama when a young girl takes a fever and quickly dies. The villagers f...
The Folklore of Academic Politics
A Village in Highland Orissa
A Bestiary of Political Forms
Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held ...
An engaging look at the deeds and words of politicians in the US, in India, and elsewhere. Bailey (anthropology, U. of California, San Diego) demonstr...
On Domesticating Ethnicity
In The Civility Of Indifference, Bailey documents a case of ethnic strife that threatened the village forty years ago but did not consume it in bloods...
Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right
When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, w...
The Art of Leadership
Must all leaders have dirty hands? Must they all defy the moral and intellectual conventions of their own societies? Building on his earlier books, F....
A Study of Political Activity and Political Change in Highland Orissa
A Study of Political Change in Highland Orissa
An Essay on Power, Reason, and Reality
An Essay on Self-respect and Social Obligation