{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-trees-and-sorrows-9780822328209","title":"In the Time of Trees and Sorrows","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule before Indian Independence and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century has wrought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A unique, densely textured historical and ethnographic account. Engaging scholarship on memory, environmental history, oral history, South Asian studies, and ethnographic experimentation, this book works on multiple registers. The authors’ observations about the sweat, dust, tears, and delights of fieldwork are also remarkable in their evocative force.”—Kirin Narayan, author of \u003ci\u003eMondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore.”—Ramachandra Guha, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unquiet Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEnvironmentalism: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Language ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface: \"There Are No Princes Now\" xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxi\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Past of Nature and the Nature of the Past 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Voice 30\u003cbr\u003e 3. Place 53\u003cbr\u003e 4. Memory 78\u003cbr\u003e 5. Shoes 105\u003cbr\u003e 6. Court 126\u003cbr\u003e 7. Homes 162\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fields 211\u003cbr\u003e 9. Jungle 241\u003cbr\u003e 10. Imports 277\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Selected Trees and Plants Mentioned in Interviews 325\u003cbr\u003e Notes 327\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 369\u003cbr\u003e References 373\u003cbr\u003e Index 397","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406029136215,"sku":"9780822328209","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-time-of-trees-and-sorrows-9780822328209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}