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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

    $60.99 USD

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self

    Edited by Anindya Sinha, B. V. Sreekantan, Sangeetha Menon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together ancient spiritual wisdom and modern science and philosophy to address age-old questions regarding our existence, free will and the nature of conscious awareness.Stuart Hameroff MDProfessor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director, Center for Consciousness StudiesThe University of Arizona, Tucson, ArizonaThis book presents a rich, broad-ranging overview of contemporary ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Macaque Connection

    Cooperation and Conflict between Humans and Macaques

    Edited by Sindhu Radhakrishna, Michael A. Huffman, Anindya Sinha ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The concept of this book arises from a symposium entitled “Human-Macaque Interactions: Traditional and Modern Perspectives on Cooperation and Conflict ” organized at the 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, that was held in Kyoto in September 2010. The symposium highlighted the many aspects of human-macaque relations and some of the participants were invited to contribute to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    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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  • The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan

    Bodies Re-Presenting the Past

    by Etsuko Kato ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

    Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Return of Polyandry

    Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

    by Heidi E. Fjeld ...
    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan communities. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in ... Read more

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  • The Heart of Helambu

    Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

    by Tom O'Neill ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times.In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

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  • India's Middle Class

    New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity

    by Christiane Brosius ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India.Rich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies, research material, and illustrations. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • 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

    $76.99 USD

  • Unlearning the City

    Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

    by Swati Chattopadhyay ...
    Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD