Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone Industry - Softcover

Babb, Lawrence A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438445865 ISBN 13: 9781438445861

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2014

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"...engaging ... Gems have long been of enormous cultural and economic importance in South Asia and this book, based on a vanishing oral archive, will long stand as a seminal study of this trade." -- Religious Studies Review

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A fascinating study of the gemstone industry of Jaipur, with special emphasis on its ownership class.

Lawrence A. Babb’s Emerald City provides an intriguing portrait of the gemstone cutting industry of the North Indian city of Jaipur. It focuses on the ownership class consisting mainly of Jains and members of northern India’s traditional trading communities. Based on oral-historical investigations of family firms, along with ethnographic observations and interviews, the book describes how the industry is organized, when and how it developed its characteristic features, and its evolving relationship with its social context. Babb pays special attention to the impact of culture on the business, with particular emphasis on the role of religion, specifically Jainism. He also offers a systematic comparison between Jaipur’s gemstone business and New York City’s famed diamond industry. In its application of ethnographic methodology to the study of an indigenous Indian industry, Emerald City delivers a unique perspective on business life in a non-Western setting.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1438445865
• ISBN 13: 9781438445861
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232