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  • Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia

    Craftspeople and Performers

    Edición de Anna Morcom, Neelam Raina ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they have shifted and changed in different historical eras and different political, economic, and social formations up to the present. In particular, through this focus on labour and ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music

    Re-envisioning a National Tradition

    de Anna Morcom ...
    The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based music over the twentieth century and into the present day. By approaching Hindustani music from beyond geographical and social centers, author Anna Morcom challenges the conventional framing of Hindustani music as a singular “classical” tradition, tracing its historical entanglements ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Resistant Hybridities

    New Narratives of Exile Tibet

    de Shelly Bhoil, Anurima Chanda, Julie Fletcher, Enrique Galvan-Alvarez, Kristen Guest, Martin Kovan, Mara Matta, Anna Morcom, Matilda Perks0, Jill J. Tan1, Tatsuya Yamamoto2, Kalsang Yangzom3 ...
    With its analytic focus on the cultural production by Tibetans-in-exile, this volume examines contemporary Tibetan fiction, poetry, music, art, cinema, pamphlets, testimony, and memoir. The twelve case studies highlight the themes of Tibetans’ self-representation, politicized national consciousness, religious and cultural heritages, and resistance to the forces of colonization. This book ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema

    de Anna Morcom ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna Morcom addresses many of the paradoxes eccentricities and myths of not just Hindi film songs but ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

    de Margaret E. Walker ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Dhol

    Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab

    de Gibb Schreffler ...
    An icon of global Punjabi culture, the dhol drum inspires an unbridled love for the instrument far beyond its application to regional vernacular music. Yet the identities of dhol players within their local communities and the broadly conceived Punjabi nation remain obscure.Gibb Schreffler draws on two decades of research to investigate dhol's place among the cultural formations within Punjabi ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Delhi's Changing Built Environment

    de Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Real Estate
    The rapid expansion, urban form and development of the built environment in the world’s second most populous city, Delhi, has been the consequence of social, political, economic, planning and architectural traditions that have shaped the city over thousands of years. Whilst seamless at times, these traditions have often resulted in the fragmented development of the city’s built environment. This ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Rendering Houses in Ladakh

    de Sophie Day ...
    Series series Home
    Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth ‘house portraits’ are selected for the insight they provide into major regional developments, based on the author’s extended engagement since 1981. Most of these houses are Buddhist ... Leer más

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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

  • India

    5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

    de Professor Audrey Truschke ...
    A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to todayMuch of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $2.52 USD

  • Appropriating the Past

    Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology

    Edición de Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham ...
    In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD