Living and Praying in the Code: The Flexibility and Discipline of Indian Information Technology Workers (ITers) in a Global Economy.
This paper uses Jean Comoroff's argument in Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance to reflect on the changing nature of religious practice in the contemporary world. It draws on Comaroff's method, which situates “religion” in a complex social, economic, and political field that is itself in the process...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 519 - 551 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2010
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