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  • Adivasi Art and Activism

    Curation in a Nationalist Age

    de Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than 100 million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    de James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Edición de Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Leer más

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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    de Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    de Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Libro 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    de Balmurli Natrajan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy.Based on original ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Heart of Helambu

    Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Tamil Brahmans

    The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

    de C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan ...
    " An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

    Edición de Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe ...
    This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Dance Matters

    Performing India on Local and Global Stages

    Edición de Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta ...
    This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Lineages of Political Society

    Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

    de Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political theory to ask, Can ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD