Between Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque: The Politics of Street-Food in the City of Calcutta

South Asia Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-50

  Mukhopadhyay, Bhaskar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

body; carnivalesque; manners; ontology; spiritual exercise; symbolic economy; taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996260072     PISSN: 02627280     EISSN: 17413141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0262728004042762     Document Type: Article

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