Reconceptualising Material Culture In The Tricontinent
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Reconceptualising Material Culture In The Tricontinent
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Author : Minu Susan Koshy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-09
Reconceptualising Material Culture In The Tricontinent written by Minu Susan Koshy and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-09 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume is the first to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent comprising Asia, Africa and Latin America, interrogating how objects help trace an alternate history of these locales. The potential of material culture to redefine postcolonial subjectivities is explored here through an analysis of various objects, both tangible and intangible. The book serves to subvert Eurocentric formulations of material culture and arrives at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies. The essays gathered here engage with an entire gamut of issues pertaining to the perception and significance of object-oriented ontologies from a multifaceted perspective. The book offers a glimpse into the vast field of material cultural studies through an engagement with various geopolitical locales in Asia, Africa and Latin America, thereby familiarizing the reader with the nuances of non-European material culture(s).
Materiality And Popular Culture
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Author : Anna Malinowska
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-08-12
Materiality And Popular Culture written by Anna Malinowska and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-12 with Social Science categories.
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.
History Through Material Culture
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Author : Leonie Hannan
language : en
Publisher: IHR Research Guides
Release Date : 2017
History Through Material Culture written by Leonie Hannan and has been published by IHR Research Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
History through material culture is an excellent guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book provides the first step-by-step guide to developing historicalresearch based around objects. The book makes clear how students and researchers can use these rich material sources to make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this book draws onexamples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.
The Ontology Of Gods
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Author : Jibu Mathew George
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-23
The Ontology Of Gods written by Jibu Mathew George and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with Philosophy categories.
This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious ideation upon which belief and faith are based, at the fundamental levels of human reasoning. Using Max Weber’s concept of “Disenchantment of the World” as a point of departure, this book endeavors to provide a pioneering philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of enchantment, disenchantment, and possible re-enchantments as they pertain to the occidental cultural history in Weberian retrospect.
Philosophical Meta Reflections On Literary Studies
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Author : Jibu Mathew George
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03
Philosophical Meta Reflections On Literary Studies written by Jibu Mathew George and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with categories.
'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance'. In contrast to usual works on literary theory, or on philosophy of literature for that matter, this book presents an integrated meta-reasoning on the foundational questions of literary studies from an interdisciplinary perspective - in a manner of intertextual informality. It endeavours to articulate a rationale for the humanities in general and literary studies in particular. It philosophically examines the implications of, and assumptions behind, three popular tendencies in contemporary literary criticism - textual deconstruction, ideological criticism and constructivism. It also introduces the reader to possibilities of non-reductive reasoning with regard to the relation between the aesthetic and the political. With his multidisciplinary background, doctoral degree on an encyclopedic author (James Joyce) and past engagements with vital issues in the humanities/literature, Jibu George is in a position to deal with foundational questions therein.
Citizenship And Its Discontents
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Author : Niraja Gopal Jayal
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Citizenship And Its Discontents written by Niraja Gopal Jayal and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Political Science categories.
Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.
Multidisciplinary Views On Popular Culture Proceedings Of The 5th International Selicup Conference
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Author : Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo
language : es
Publisher: Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Multidisciplinary Views On Popular Culture Proceedings Of The 5th International Selicup Conference written by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo and has been published by Universidad de Castilla La Mancha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Social Science categories.
Cultures Of Servitude
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Author : Raka Ray
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-27
Cultures Of Servitude written by Raka Ray and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-27 with Social Science categories.
Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around the home and in the public sphere. This book shifts the conversations surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants grapple with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality.
Gendered Ways Of Transnational Un Belonging From A Comparative Literature Perspective
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Author : Indrani Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-03
Gendered Ways Of Transnational Un Belonging From A Comparative Literature Perspective written by Indrani Mukherjee and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
As the outcome of an international conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, this book provides a collection of productive texts on, and novel critical approaches to, comparative literature for young scholars. The wide range of analytical approaches employed here allow for the opening up of texts to new readings. The contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary representations, such as novels, poems and short stories, and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature. As a commentary on contemporary representations of gender, the book is also relevant for all higher education institutions which seek to heighten gender sensitivity.
Transcultural Negotiations Of Gender
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Author : Saugata Bhaduri
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Transcultural Negotiations Of Gender written by Saugata Bhaduri and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Social Science categories.
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of ‘belonging’ and ‘longing’– the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes into the category of ‘transculturality’ itself, by examining how not only does it pertain to the coming together of cultures from diverse spatial locations, but how shifts over time and changing performative modes and technological means of articulation, within what may be presumed to be the same culture, can also lead to the ‘transcultural’. The volume comprises four sections. Part I, ‘(Be)longing in Time’, examines negotiation of gender through transcultural acts of myths, rituals and religious practices being revised and revisited over time. Part II, ‘(Be)longing in Space’, studies how gender is renegotiated when people from different spaces interact, as also when public spaces and domains themselves become sites of such negotiations. In Part III, ‘Performing (Be)longing’, such transcultural negotiations are located in the context of changing modes of performance, considering particularly that gender itself is performative. The final section, ‘Modernity, Technology and (Be)longing’, traces how gender becomes transculturally negotiated in a space like India, with the advent of modernity and its companion technology.