Publications of Nathaniel Roberts

Roberts, N. (2016). To be cared for: The power of conversion and foreignness of belonging in an Indian Slum. Oakland, California: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520288829

Roberts, N. (2016). To be cared for book forum: a response from the author. Contemporary South Asia, 24(4), 458–461. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2016.1255924

Roberts, N. (2012). Is conversion a ‘colonization of consciousness’? Anthropological Theory, 12(3), 272–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499612469583

Roberts, N. (2015). Setting caste back on its feet: [Review of:] Beyond caste: identity and power in South Asia, past and present by Sumit Guha. Anthropology of this century. Retrieved from http://aotcpress.com/articles/setting-caste-feet/

Roberts, N. (2013). [Review of:] Quack, Johannes: Disenchanting India. Religion and Society. Berghahn. Retrieved from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/arrs/2013/00000004/00000001;jsessionid=1e5bflo3rlad7.victoria

Roberts, N. (2012). [Review of:] Thomas, V.V., Dalit Pentecostalism: Spirituality of the Empowered Poor. Bangalore: Asian Trading Company, 2008. xxv+432pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9788170864577. PentecoStudies. Equinox Publ. Ltd. Retrieved from http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PENT/article/view/15060/pdf

Roberts, N. (2011). [Review of:] Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: democratic practice in South India. Bernard Bate. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv + 263 pp. American ethnologist. Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01312_3.x/abstract

Roberts, N. (2011). [Review of:] The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai. Mary E. Hancock. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 296 pp. American Anthropologist. Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01321_14.x/abstract

Roberts, N. (2017). Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste/Class and gender in slum pentecostal discourse. In S. Anandhi & K. Kapadia (Eds.), Dalit women: Vanguard of an alternative politics in India (pp. 279–304). London: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Dalit-Women-Vanguard-of-an-Alternative-Politics-in-India/Anandhi-Kapadia/p/book/9781138221062

Roberts, N. (2015). From village to city: Hinduism and the “Hindu caste system.” In P. van der Veer (Ed.), Handbook of religion and the Asian city: Aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century (pp. 237–253). California: University of California Press. Retrieved from http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281226