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Archaeology of Babel : the colonial foundation of the humanities /
This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hiddenpre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their cur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hiddenpre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781503604049 1503604047 0804785295 9780804785297 9781503604025 1503604020 |