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SUMMARY:Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr James Staples\, Brunel Universit
 y London - ‘’COWS\, BEEF\, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN COTEMPORARY INDIA”
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DESCRIPTION:Social Anthropology Seminar\n\nMonday\, 23rd February 2015\nD
 r James Staples\, Brunel University London\n\n‘’COWS\, BEEF\, AND IDENTI
 TY POLITICS IN COTEMPORARY INDIA”\n\nThe fact that debates over cattle s
 laughter and the consumption of beef featured at all in the run-up to In
 dia’s hotly-contested election last year is testament not only to the co
 ntinuing symbolic\, material and affective significance of beef to life 
 in the sub-continent\, but to the levels of ambivalence and controversy 
 that still surround a meat apparently long since rejected as food by the
  majority of Indians. In some contexts beef consumption is held up as a 
 marker of cosmopolitan sophistication. In others it is decried as an unc
 lean\, defiling practice that threatens the cultural sensibilities (and 
 perhaps bodily integrity) of the Hindu majority. Opposition to beef eati
 ng is described by Dalit activists as ‘cultural fascism’—a threat to the
 ir very identity—at the same time as those same beef-eaters are accused 
 of violence towards the cultural mores of the non-beef eating castes. Th
 is paper explores the shifting and highly contested meanings attributed 
 to beef and cattle in contemporary India\, where—I argue—it plays an imp
 ortant role in continuing battles over caste status and identity.\n2.016
 /2.017\, Second Floor Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\n3:15 – 5:00pm (
 Tea and coffee available outside the room from 3:00pm)\n\nALL WELCOME!\n
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LOCATION:2.016/2.017\, Second Floor Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\, A
 rthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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