Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic

Bernard Bate

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultures of History
• This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transforma... Lees meer

Against History, Against State

Shail Mayaram

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures of History
• Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Against State examines how conceptions of history a... Lees meer

The Ethical Soundscape

Charles Hirschkind

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures of History
• Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form--the cassette sermon--has profoundly transformed the political geography o... Lees meer

Nakba

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures of History
• For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for... Lees meer

Lineages of Political Society

Partha Chatterjee

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures of History
• Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to ... Lees meer

Autobiography of an Archive

Nicholas Dirks

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures of History
• The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians pa... Lees meer

Monuments, Objects, Histories

Tapati Guha-Thakurta

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultures of History
• Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-... Lees meer

Mobile Modernity

Todd Presner

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultures of History
• Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks inste... Lees meer

The Pariah Problem

Rupa Viswanath

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultures of History
• Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelm... Lees meer