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Author | : Nita Kumar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400886996 |
Nita Kumar offers an evocative and sensitive portrayal of rarely explored aspects of Hindu culture through her analysis of the way leisure time is used by Hindu and Muslim artisans of Banaras--the weavers, metalworkers, and woodworkers. Music, festivals, the place of physical culture, and the importance of going "to the outer side" all are examined as Kumar looks at changes that have occurred in leisure-time activities over the last century. The discussion raises questions of the cultural and conceptual aspects of working-class life, the role of fun and play in Indian thought, the importance of public activities in terms of personal identity, and the meaning of an Indian city to its residents. This analysis turns away from the usual models of Hindu-Muslim conflict by seeing divisions based on occupation, income level, education, and urban neighborhood as more relevant for the construction of identity than those based on religion or community. Kumar draws her information from police station records, Hindi newspapers and periodicals, publications of local individuals and organizations, oral history, and ethnographic data. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Nita Kumar |
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Total Pages | : 307 |
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ISBN | : 9780608063812 |
Author | : Nita Kumar |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Artisans |
ISBN | : 9788125003625 |
Nita Kumar Offers An Evocative And Sensitive Portrayal Of Rarely Explored Aspects Of Hindu Culture Through Her Analysis Of The Way Leisure Time Is Used By Hindu And Muslim Artisans Of Banaras The Weavers, Metalworkers, And Woodworkers. The Importance Of Going To The Outer Side , The Place Of Physical Culture, Music, And Festivals All Are Examined As Kumar Looks At Changes That Have Occurred In Leisure-Time Activities Over The Last Century. The Discussion Raises Questions Of The Cultural And Conceptual Aspects Of Working-Class Life, The Role Of Fun And Play In Indian Thought, The Importance Of Public Activities In Terms Of Personal Identity, And The Meaning Of An Indian City To Its Residents.
Author | : Nita Kumar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Rites and ceremonies |
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Author | : Sandria B. Freitag |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520313399 |
This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of community. Part One examines the performance genres that have drawn audiences from throughout the city. Part Two focuses on the areas of neighborhood, leisure, and work, examining the processes by which urban residents use a sense of identity to organize their activities and bring meaning to their lives. Part Three links these experiences within Banaras to a series of "larger worlds," ranging from language movements and political protests to disease ecology and regional environmental impact. Banaras is a complex world, with differences in religion, caste, class, language, and popular culture; the diversity of these essays embraces those differences. It is a collection that will interest scholars and students of South Asia as well as anyone interested in comparative discussions of popular culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author | : Faegheh Shirazi |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-04-06 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1350291242 |
Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East – with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles – and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Author | : Steven Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521536059 |
This book explains the relationship between Hindu-Muslim riots and elections in India.
Author | : Chaise LaDousa |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 178238233X |
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of “medium,” the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.
Author | : Carla Risseeuw |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004344195 |
The concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world. The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds—solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.
Author | : Philip Lutgendorf |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Criticism, Textual |
ISBN | : 0520066901 |
"The range of Manas performance traditions captured here is immense. What is wonderful and remarkable is that each is presented vividly, with careful ethnographic detail, so that they become living traditions to the reader."--Susan Wadley, Syracuse University