Recasting an ethnographic aura of demography and kinship

The primordial perspective of this book is to basically grapple with the nuances of three books on ethnographic studies and try to bridge the linkages of the perspectives on sexuality, reproduction and power and seeing this whole discourse through a Foucauldian perspective. It takes a very exploratory, unbiased perspective of a participant observer of appraising the Foucauldian themes of bio-politics(governmentality, theology, and sexuality).The critical analysis of the ethnographic studies is deemed to have been through this somewhat finite Foucauldian perspective and it circumscribes around the abstract spatial connotations of sexuality, keeping in mind its applicability in Foucauldian discourse on bio-politics and also elucidating the fact that health care may be a gendered process in different communities in Rajasthan, Egypt and even Carnia. An ethnography is to be done in complete participant observation according to Malinowski and Radcliffe Brown. The prime-mover of this paper is to study the discourse of bio-politics, its shortcomings and the exploratory approach of evaluating this perspective to find a rational appraisal of evaluating the applicability in the aspects of ge

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Bhaskar Chakraborti is presently a PhD Research Scholar in Womens Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta. Before that he did his M.Phil in Sociology from The Centre of Advanced Learning, Department of Sociology in Delhi School of Economics. He did his masters in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.