PROF Edward Simpson's Outputs (6)

Apprenticeship in western India (2006)
Journal Article
Simpson, E. (2006). Apprenticeship in western India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12(1), 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00285.x

A number of recent attempts to describe what happens in the ‘embodied’ space between action and the discursive language used to describe that action have been primarily informed by various western theories of mind. In this article, I present an indig... Read More about Apprenticeship in western India.

The rituals of rehabilitation: Rebuilding an urban neighbourhood after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 (2006)
Book Chapter
Simpson, E. (2006). The rituals of rehabilitation: Rebuilding an urban neighbourhood after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001. In G. De Neve, & H. Donner (Eds.), The meaning of the local: Politics of place in Urban India (206-231). Routledge

Militant cartographies and traumatic spaces: Ayodhya, Bhuj and the contested geographies of Hindutva (2006)
Book Chapter
Corbridge, S., & Simpson, E. (2006). Militant cartographies and traumatic spaces: Ayodhya, Bhuj and the contested geographies of Hindutva. In S. Raju, M. S. Kumar, & S. Corbridge (Eds.), Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India (70-84). Sage

The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the pre-memorial era (2006)
Journal Article
Simpson, E., & Corbridge, S. (2006). The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the pre-memorial era. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(3), 566-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00706.x

In this paper we focus on the rebuilding of Bhuj and its environs in the period from January 2001 to January 2005. We do so not from the perspective of urban planning or the geography of relief efforts, although both of these enter our narrative. Rat... Read More about The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the pre-memorial era.

The state of Gujarat and the men without souls (2006)
Journal Article
Simpson, E. (2006). The state of Gujarat and the men without souls. Critique of Anthropology, 26(3), 331-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X06066581

In 2002, Gujarat, a state in the west of India, was home to one of the worst rounds of religious violence the country had seen for decades. The victims were mostly Muslims. In this paper, I argue, as others have done, that this violence was a product... Read More about The state of Gujarat and the men without souls.

Muslim society and the western Indian Ocean: The seafarers of Kachchh (2006)
Book
Simpson, E. (2006). Muslim society and the western Indian Ocean: The seafarers of Kachchh. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203099513

Based on substantial ethnographic, textual and archival research, this interesting book offers a new perspective on the anthropology of the western Indian Ocean. Writing in a clear, engaging style, and covering an impressive range of theoretical terr... Read More about Muslim society and the western Indian Ocean: The seafarers of Kachchh.