Pandian is among the first scholars to treat it as a secular aspiration. The question of ethical personhood is now a growing concern in anthropology, and Prof. This novel perspective transforms conventional understandings of development as the pursuit of material well-being, orchestrated from above through state programs, to highlight local histories of self-making. But he injects into them a fresh ingredient: morality and the aspiration to be a better person. His monograph Crooked Stalks (2009) synthesizes important and well-studied subjects: caste-based identities, agrarian political economy, and ecology in Tamil Nadu. Anand Pandian’s work is outstanding for the originality it brings to established fields of research.
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