Eric Meyer Author

Denis Vidal, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, is currently working and teaching about the visual anthropology of South Asia. He is the author of Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (1997) and he has co-edited two other volumes in India: in collaboration with Philippe Cadène: Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India (1997); in collaboration with E. Tarlo and V. Dupont: Delhi: Urban?Space?and?Human?Destinies?(2000).

Gilles Tarabout, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, has specialised in the study of Kerala's society and popular religious practices. Apart from his own publications in the field, he has co-edited volumes bearing on various themes: Islam and Christianity in India, Religious Possession in South Asia, Conceptions?of?the?Body?in?Hinduism.

Eric Meyer, has focused in works on the interaction between colonial capitalism and rural society in South Asia with particular reference to peasants, planters and the State in modern Sri Lanka. He is the author of Sri Lanka.?Entre?particularismes?et?mondialisation?(2001).