The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai /

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In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office servic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hancock, Mary Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Collective memory > India > Chennai.
Cultural property > India > Chennai.
Collective memory.
Cultural property.
Mémoire collective > Inde > Chennai.
Mémoire collective.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Collective memory
Cultural policy
Cultural property
Chennai (India) > Cultural policy.
India > Chennai
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations; 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai's New Heritage; Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts; 2. Governing the Past: Chennai's Histories; 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics; 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage; Part 2. Restructured Memories; 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism's Cultural Economies; 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai; 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis; 8. Conclusion: "How Many Museums Can One Have?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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