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  • Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

    Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

    par Susan Bayly ...
    Collections Livre 16 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ritual and Memory

    Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

    par J.D.Y Peel, David Shankland, Maurice Bloch, Brian Malley, Susan Bayly, Leo Howe, Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College, Cambridge), Jack Goody, Christian K. Højbjerg ...
    Collections series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically ... En savoir plus

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    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    par Amartya Sen ...
    India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition.The ... En savoir plus

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  • The Idea of India

    par Sunil Khilnani ...
    THE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost ... En savoir plus

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  • Provincializing Europe

    Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

    par Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD

  • Decolonizing Anarchism

    An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle

    par Maia Ramnath ...
    Collections series Anarchist Interventions
    Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective. Maia Ramnath also studies the anarchist vision of alternate society, which closely echoes the concept of ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Imaginary Institution of India

    Politics and Ideas

    par Sudipta Kaviraj ...
    For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History

    par SUMIT SARKAR ...
    The political context in which the Historian of India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalised forms of capitalism. Simultaneously, the historians intellectual context is now dominated by the marginalisation of Marxism and a shift to cultural studies and postmodern critiques. In this scenario, how may a thinking historian practice the ... En savoir plus

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  • India and the British Empire

    Modifié par Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Collections series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... En savoir plus

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  • Empire and Nation

    Selected Essays

    par Partha Chatterjee ...
    Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an area of scholarship he continues to develop.In this collection, English-speaking readers are finally able to experience the breadth ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Lineages of Political Society

    Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

    par Partha Chatterjee ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Architects of Dignity

    Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization

    par Kevin D. Pham ...
    Collections series Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Vietnam has long been a crossroads of empires and thus a site of rich cross-cultural intellectual exchange. In The Architects of Dignity, Kevin Pham is the first political theorist to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge Western conventional wisdom. Drawing on Vietnamese and French language material, Pham traces an ... En savoir plus

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