Culture And The Making Of Identity In Contemporary India
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Author | : Kamala Ganesh |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2005-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761933816 |
This collection of 17 original essays, provides insights into the many ways in which the interrelated issues of culture, identity and `Indianness' are expressed in contemporary times. The contributors map and evaluate the developments in their respective fields over the past 50 years and cover the topics of art, music, theatre, literature, philosophy, science, history and feminism.
Author | : Sharmistha Saha |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2018-11-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9811311773 |
This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the discourse around ‘Indian theatre’ that was started by the orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in colonial India, including the initiation of ‘Indian theatre’ practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native ‘theatre’ by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant discourse from the ‘swadeshi jatra’ (national jatra/theatre) in Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and was used as a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national subject – that of the ‘Indian’. The author contextualizes the relevance of the concept of ‘Indian theatre’ in today’s political atmosphere. She also critically analyses the post-Independence Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1956 and its relevance to the subsequent organization of ‘Indian theatre’. Many theatre personalities who emerged as faces of smaller theatre committees were part of the seminar which envisioned a national cultural body. This book is an important contribution to the field and is of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, especially Theatre and Performance Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Author | : Charles Lindholm |
Publisher | : Oneworld |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2007-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
In this newly revised and updated edition, Lindholm provides a comprehensive introduction to psychological anthropology, deftly tracing the growth of the field, introducing the key theorists, and covering a broad range of contemporary topics such as identity, emotions, symbolic systems, and the psychology of groups.
Author | : Kamala Ganesh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9788178295244 |
This Collection Of 17 Original Essays Provides Insights Into The Various Ways In Which The Inter-Related Issues Of Culture, Identity And Indianness Are Expressed In Contemporary Times.
Author | : Kiranmayi Bhushi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108416292 |
"Enquires into the ways in which food and its production and consumption are enmeshed in aspects of human existence and society, taking India and its interaction with food as its focal point"--
Author | : Diana Dimitrova |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-02-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319410156 |
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and “Indianness” and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating “Indianness”, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.
Author | : Sirpa Tenhunen |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 085728827X |
“An Introduction to Changing India” provides a comprehensive view of the rapid changes occurring in India, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, economics and technology, population, environmental issues and gender. Having carried out anthropological research on kinship, gender issues, politics, class and caste, population issues and the appropriation of information technology in India since the 1990s, the authors draw from their own fieldwork and extensive reading of research reports in order to provide a comprehensive picture of Indian life.
Author | : K. Moti Gokulsing |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134023073 |
This book explores India’s rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.
Author | : Tim Edensor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100018367X |
The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.
Author | : Don Slater |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780745603049 |
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought. With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.