Critical Asian Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Living With Violence
An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life
Av Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta
Häftad, 2019
647 kr
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This book gives a detailed account of thecommunal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the riot, which assumes that Hindu-Muslim conflict is independent of the participants of the violence.Speaking to and interacting with the residents of …
Intimate State
Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Av Perveez Mody
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the …
Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns
An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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This book is an anthropological study located along India‘s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, …
Shared Histories of Modernity
China, India and the Ottoman Empire
Av Huri Islamoglu, Peter C. Perdue
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two …
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Av Naveeda Khan
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and …
Living With Violence
An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life
Av Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta
Inbunden, 2007
2510 kr
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This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the riot, which assumes that Hindu-Muslim conflict is independent of the participants of the violence.Speaking to and interacting with the residents of …
Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns
An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India
Inbunden, 2008
2585 kr
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This book is an anthropological study located along India’s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, …
Intimate State
Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Av Perveez Mody
Inbunden, 2008
2510 kr
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This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the …
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Av Naveeda Khan
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and …
Shared Histories of Modernity
China, India and the Ottoman Empire
Av Huri Islamoglu, Peter C. Perdue
Inbunden, 2009
2585 kr
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While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two …
Speaking with Pictures
Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India
Inbunden, 2012
2585 kr
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Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its figurative modes and the ways in which they are embedded in mythic thought. The book discusses folk art as a contemporary phenomenon …
Enchantments of Modernity
Empire, Nation, Globalization
Av Saurabh Dube
Häftad, 2010
711 kr
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The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern …
Intimate State
Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Av Perveez Mody
E-bok, 2008
814 kr
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This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the …
Intimate State
Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Av Perveez Mody
E-bok, 2008
814 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the …
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Av Naveeda Khan
E-bok, 2012
864 kr
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Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and …
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Av Naveeda Khan
E-bok, 2012
883 kr
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Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and …
Enchantments of Modernity
Empire, Nation, Globalization
Av Saurabh Dube
Inbunden, 2016
2585 kr
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The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern …
Speaking with Pictures
Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India
Häftad, 2015
936 kr
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Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its figurative modes and the ways in which they are embedded in mythic thought. The book discusses folk art as a contemporary phenomenon …
