Book description
How do people come to live as they ought to live? Crooked Stalks seeks an answer to this enduring question in diverse practices of cultivation: in the moral horizons of development intervention, in the forms of virtue through which people may work upon their own desires, deeds, and habits, andā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked Crooked Stalks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have been fascinated with selfhood, the cultivation of āsubjects of developmentā as either targets, or ātrusteesā of aid, since my PhD.
Anand Pandianās Crooked Stalks offers a nuanced, careful, and ultimately beautiful account of how moral selves are cultivated among the Kallar caste near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India.
Development looms large among the Kallar, what Pandian describes as a āmoral horizonā that is an impetus to transform peopleās lives and the material environment.
In presenting an impressive breadth of historical material alongside ethnographic description he shows the remnants of colonial rule in contemporary virtues, contributing to understanding theā¦
From Tanya's list on anthropology of development.
If you love Crooked Stalks...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancĆ©, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Heddaā¦
Want books like Crooked Stalks?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Crooked Stalks.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,340
readers submitted
so far, will you?
š If you like Crooked Stalks, you might also like...
Foxfire in the Snow
It's a time of change, between magic and alchemy.
Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin canāt quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with theā¦
The Main Gate
Dr. Elise Marquette has spent years burying the pastāuntil the past refuses to stay buried.
Hired to join Earthās first interstellar contact team, she hopes the vastness of space will finally offer distance from the ghosts of war and the wounds left by a mother who never let her beā¦
