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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life
- Assa Doron, R. Jeffrey
- Sociology
- 2 April 2013
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy… Expand
Mobile Persons: Cell phones, Gender and the Self in North India
- Assa Doron
- Sociology
- 23 October 2012
In this article I analyse the varied ways mobile phones are integrated into the daily lives of low-income people and the implications for courtship practices, marriage relations and kinship ties.… Expand
The inequalities of medical pluralism: Hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology.
- A. Broom, Assa Doron, P. Tovey
- Sociology, Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 1 September 2009
India has an eclectic health system that incorporates biomedical as well as traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM). Our understanding of the co-existence of these therapeutic… Expand
The cultural politics of shit: class, gender and public space in India
- Assa Doron, I. Raja
- Sociology
- 3 April 2015
In this article we seek to interrogate the cultural, political and economic conditions that generate the crisis of sanitation in India, with its severe implications for the poor and the marginalized.… Expand
Great Indian Phone Book
- R. Jeffrey, Assa Doron
- Engineering, Sociology
- 18 February 2013
The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of… Expand
Health, culture and religion in South Asia : critical perspectives
- Assa Doron, A. Broom
- Sociology, Medicine
- 2010
Introduction: The Social and Cultural Production of Health in South Asia Assa Doron and Alex Broom Section 1: Culture, power and lay medical interface 1: Class and the Clinic: The Subject of Medical… Expand
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The intoxicated poor: alcohol, morality and power among the boatmen of Banaras
- Assa Doron
- Sociology
- 19 March 2010
Anthropological research on alcohol use and misuse has largely focused on the symbolic meaning of alcohol in ritual settings and its role in the everyday lives of indigenous populations. Much has… Expand
Gender and masculinities: new perspectives
- Assa Doron, A. Broom
- Sociology
- 19 March 2013
The tragic incident of a young woman gang-raped and beaten on a Delhi bus has sent shockwaves throughout India, making headlines internationally. For now, it seems, politicians are taking note of the… Expand
Masculinities and violence in India and Indonesia: Identifying themes and constructs for research
- P. Nilan, A. Broom, Argyo Demartoto, Assa Doron, K. R. Nayar, J. Germov
- Geography
- 2008
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The great Indian phone book : how cheap mobile phones change business, politics and daily life
- R. Jeffrey, Assa Doron
- Engineering
- 2013
The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of… Expand
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