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DESCRIPTION:South Asia Center\npresents: Nicole Wilson\, Department of Anth
 ropology\, Syracuse University “Everyone\nKnows the Story of the Greedy Do
 g”: The Middle Class Moral Dilemma in South\nIndia In a reactionary essay 
 concerning the recent Indian middle class\nanti-corruption movement led by
  Anna Hazare\, Arjun Appadurai identifies the\nformation of two distinct I
 ndian middle class selves as a consequence of\nmodernity and a foundation 
 for angst-ridden social activism in the Indian\npublic sphere. These selve
 s\, he argues\, are at war - a “modern\, abstract and\nimpersonal” identit
 y versus a “self-interested\, family-oriented and totally\nlocalistic” sel
 f – in the lives of many middle class Indians. I argue that at\nthe heart 
 of this formation and confrontation of selves\, as well as movements\nspru
 ng from these clashes\, is a communal understanding and employment of a co
 nceived\nmiddle class moral compass that embodies particular class and cas
 te-based\nvalues and worldviews. In this paper\, I identify and explore mi
 ddle class\nmorality and value systems as they were revealed to me in the 
 south Indian city\nof Madurai\, Tamilnadu. I use ethnographic material col
 lected between 2009 and\n2011\, as well as examples from Tamil cinema and 
 literature\, to illustrate the\nbattle between “modern” and “traditional” 
 selves\, commenting on how these\nconfrontations are manifested in the mor
 al codes and daily interactions of\nmiddle class Tamils.
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SUMMARY:South Asia Center presents: Nicole Wilson
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:South Asia Center\npresents: Nicole Wilson\, D
 epartment of Anthropology\, Syracuse University “Everyone\nKnows the Story
  of the Greedy Dog”: The Middle Class Moral Dilemma in South\nIndia In a r
 eactionary essay concerning the recent Indian middle class\nanti-corruptio
 n movement led by Anna Hazare\, Arjun Appadurai identifies the\nformation 
 of two distinct Indian middle class selves as a consequence of\nmodernity 
 and a foundation for angst-ridden social activism in the Indian\npublic sp
 here. These selves\, he argues\, are at war - a “modern\, abstract and\nim
 personal” identity versus a “self-interested\, family-oriented and totally
 \nlocalistic” self – in the lives of many middle class Indians. I argue th
 at at\nthe heart of this formation and confrontation of selves\, as well a
 s movements\nsprung from these clashes\, is a communal understanding and e
 mployment of a conceived\nmiddle class moral compass that embodies particu
 lar class and caste-based\nvalues and worldviews. In this paper\, I identi
 fy and explore middle class\nmorality and value systems as they were revea
 led to me in the south Indian city\nof Madurai\, Tamilnadu. I use ethnogra
 phic material collected between 2009 and\n2011\, as well as examples from 
 Tamil cinema and literature\, to illustrate the\nbattle between “modern” a
 nd “traditional” selves\, commenting on how these\nconfrontations are mani
 fested in the moral codes and daily interactions of\nmiddle class Tamils.
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