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“gauri bharat”

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  • Indigenous Architecture in India

    Exploring Plural Lifeworlds

    by Gauri Bharat ...
    This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. The chapters deal with different ideas and definitions of indigeneity, while also addressing the complex equations between the production and perception of built forms, indigenous ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Streets in India

    Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities

    by Sadan Jha, Gauri Bharat ...
    Streets are places that stimulate activities, interactions, behaviours and, by extension, controls. Yet, within the built environment discourse, the street is first and foremost conceptualised as a mute backdrop to movement-vehicular or pedestrian. The Covid-19 pandemic brought renewed focus on the street as the space of networks, flows and mobilities as the 'lockdown' was the preferred mode of ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

    by Martin Saxer ...
    Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. ... Read more

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  • The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India

    The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society

    by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social ... Read more

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  • Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition

    Branding the Potters of Kolkata

    by Geir Heierstad ...
    Series series Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
    Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata’s Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste. This group of artisans turned artists do not display passive responses to colonial and capitalist encounters but engage actively with the modern and economic developments of society at ... Read more

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  • Women Architects in India

    Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi

    by Mary N. Woods ...
    As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India. Educated in the 1930s and 1940s, the very first women architects designed everything from factories to museums in the post-independence period. The generations that ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition

    A Place called Shangrila

    by Ashild Kolas ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic effects of Shangrila tourism in Tibet, investigating who benefits economically, whilest also considering ... Read more

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  • Performance at the Urban Periphery

    Insights from South India

    Edited by Cathy Turner, Sharada Srinivasan, Jerri Daboo, Anindya Sinha ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes on their cultural economy, and the environmental impacts of performance itself. This project also considers how ... Read more

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  • Cultural Landscapes of South Asia

    Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management

    Edited by Amita Sinha, Kapila Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement AwardThe pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Japan

    From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

    by Koji Mizoguchi ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing ... Read more

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  • Women Architects and Modernism in India

    Narratives and contemporary practices

    by Madhavi Desai ...
    Series series Visual and Media Histories
    Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it ... Read more

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  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    by Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s essential ... Read more

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