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Book Synopsis Verrier Elwin, Philanthropologist by : Verrier Elwin
Download or read book Verrier Elwin, Philanthropologist written by Verrier Elwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering anthropologist who closely studied little-known Indian tribes, Verrier Elwin's writings provide insight into Indian tribal life, art, and culture. The essays in this collection discuss his experiences in India, Indian tribes, Muria and their ghotul, Maria murder and suicide, art, folksongs, myths, and Nagaland. Nineteen black and white photographs, the majority taken by Elwin, are also included.
Book Synopsis Philanthropologist by : Verrier Elwin
Download or read book Philanthropologist written by Verrier Elwin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering anthropologist who closely studied little-known Indian tribes, Verrier Elwin's writings provide insight into Indian tribal life, art, and culture. The essays in this collection discuss his experiences in India, Indian tribes, Muria and their ghotul, Maria murder and suicide, art, folksongs, myths, and Nagaland. Nineteen black and white photographs, the majority taken by Elwin, are also included.
Book Synopsis Savaging the Civilized by : Ramachandra Guha
Download or read book Savaging the Civilized written by Ramachandra Guha and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evangelist, social worker, political activist, poet, government worker, and more. Intensely political, the Oxford-trained scholar tirelessly defended the rights of the indigenous and despite the deep religious influences of St.
Book Synopsis Shadow States by : Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
Download or read book Shadow States written by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.
Book Synopsis The Oxford India Elwin by : Verrier Elwin
Download or read book The Oxford India Elwin written by Verrier Elwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From presenting, in Elwin's own words, the account of his going to work among the tribal peoples of central India, to affording glimpses of his seminal work on the unique institution of the ghotul among the Murias of Bastar, or relating Elwin's attempts at understanding the high incidence of murder and suicide among the Bison-horn Marias of Bastar, The Oxford India Elwin looks beyond the general and the oft-repeated to include within its covers the many fascinating discoveries that Verrier Elwin made while working among the different tribal communities in India. While the Introduction to Folk Songs of the Maikal Hills discusses the principles of translating folk poetry, the importance of the elements of nature, magic, the supernatural, and song and dance in tribal life is highlighted through selections from The Myths of Middle India. Whether providing glimpses of Elwin's travels in the remote Northeast, or discussing the effects of 'civilization' on tribal art, or describing the Naga people and their customs, or presenting the myths of the NEFA region, the effort is to bring the man, his thoughts and actions, the contributions he made towards upholding and preserving the cultural diversity of the Subcontinent, closer to readers through a single volume which will be both accessible and affordable. The book will be a valuable addition to the Oxford India Collection which includes the writings of Ghalib, Premchand, Ramanujan, Nehru, and Gandhi. Armed with a useful and perceptive Introduction by G.N. Devy, this edition will appeal to all those who know and adore Elwin, as also students and researchers of anthropology, cultural studies, and Indian history.
Download or read book Verrier Elwin written by Bhabagrahi Misra and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gandhiji. Bapu of His People by : Verrier Elwin
Download or read book Gandhiji. Bapu of His People written by Verrier Elwin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by : Verrier Elwin
Download or read book The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin written by Verrier Elwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verrier Elwin Was An English Intellectual Who Came To India As Missionary But Was Himself Converted To Indian Ways Of Thinking By His Contact With Mahatma Gandhi, The National Movement And Tribal India. A Classic Autobiography Of One Of India`S Great Pioneering Anthropologists.
Book Synopsis The Bureaucracy of Beauty by : Arindam Dutta
Download or read book The Bureaucracy of Beauty written by Arindam Dutta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the book's literal subject: in a remarkable set of chapters, Dutta explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry, the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, the politics and technology of exhibition, and competing philosophies of aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, Kant, Mill, Ruskin, and Gandhi. A rich study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, The Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how things - big things -change.
Book Synopsis Six Villages of Bengal by : Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Download or read book Six Villages of Bengal written by Ramkrishna Mukherjee and published by Bombay : Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1971 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voices from the Margins by : Jangkholam Haokip
Download or read book Voices from the Margins written by Jangkholam Haokip and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom of tribal peoples has often been overlooked, both within the church and outside of it. However as the ideologies of consumerism, free market individualism, and nationalism grow more and more dominant across the globe, with devastating implications for our planet’s shared future, it has become ever more urgent to make space for voices from the margins – voices offering alternative frameworks for understanding the nature of existence, spirituality, and what it means to be human. This book draws together contributors from diverse tribal and denominational backgrounds to reflect on the future of Christianity in Northeast India, a region rich in ancient myths, oral traditions, and a vibrant awareness of both the spiritual realm and the embeddedness of humans within creation. Joining a wider conversation regarding the integration of Christianity and primal traditions, the authors wrestle with crucial questions surrounding identity and the challenges of contextualizing the gospel in relation to their own languages, cultures, and traditions. Looking both backwards and forwards, they provide insight into the history of Christianity in tribal contexts, while exploring the vital significance of recovering and transmitting indigenous knowledge and the profound perspective it offers the church into the significance of Christ and his gospel.
Book Synopsis Rural India in Transition by : A.R. Desai
Download or read book Rural India in Transition written by A.R. Desai and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire's Garden written by Jayeeta Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.
Book Synopsis Oral Traditions, Continuities and Transformations in Northeast India and Beyond by : Surajit Sarkar
Download or read book Oral Traditions, Continuities and Transformations in Northeast India and Beyond written by Surajit Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast India is home to many distinct communities and is an area of incredible ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This book explores the shared cultural heritage among the highland and river valley communities of Northeast India and mainland South East Asia, including South China, through oral traditions. It looks at these shared cultural traditions and suggests new ways of understanding and interpreting the heritage of Northeast India. Oral traditions often bring forward an unexpected twist in understanding historical and cultural links, and this volume explores this using local knowledge and innovative engagements with oral traditions in multiple ways, from folklore and language to performative traditions. The essays in this volume examine how communities build new meanings from old traditions, often as a recognition of the tension between conservation and creation, between individual interpretation and social consensus. They offer interesting parallels on how oral traditions behave in different socio-economic contexts, and also examine how oral traditions and memory interact with the digital world’s penetration in the remote areas. This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of Northeast India, sociology, sociology of culture, cultural studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, folkloristics, and political sociology.
Book Synopsis Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions by : Gerald H. Anderson
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions written by Gerald H. Anderson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Makers of Modern India by : Ramachandra Guha
Download or read book Makers of Modern India written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actorsÑthink of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian historyÑrace, religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism, economic development, violence, and nonviolenceÑMakers of Modern India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define the modern world.
Book Synopsis Between Ethnography and Fiction by : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Download or read book Between Ethnography and Fiction written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Ethnography and Fiction brings together essays by sixteen scholars of various disciplines to re-examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the fields of tribal literature, tribe and non-tribe relationship, tribal development policies, missionaries and conversion, myths and legends, art and craft, etc. Elwin is undoubtedly one of the most controversial as well as influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. The essays included here are therefore both appreciative and critical.
