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Consuming modernity : public culture in a South Asian world /
Illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The contributors address the roles intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; One. Public Modernity in India; Part I. The Historical Past; Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio; Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels; Five. Dining Out in Bombay; Part II. The Historical Present; Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu; Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film; Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art.