...This chapter talks about the concept of the “colonial subject” and its relation to recent writings about South Asia. It looks at the impacts of historical anthropology on writing about South Asia, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Subaltern Studies. The main argument in this chapter...

...This chapter challenges the uncontested privilege of the disciplines and the interdisciplinary to explain and address the move to historical anthropology. It provides some suggestions to the ways important questions and approaches within the scholarly practice of historical anthropology...

...This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that, in China, ritual provided the social glue which law provided in the West. It offers a history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues...