Autobiography of an Archive : a Scholar's Passage to India /

This volume uses a scholar's intellectual journey to India to look at how, between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century, the discipline of history turned its focus from high politics and formal intellectual history toward ordinary lives and cultural rhythms. It shows how, during this time,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dirks, Nicholas B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Colección:Cultures of history.
Temas:
Anthropology and history > India.
Anthropological archives > India.
Education, Higher > United States > Philosophy.
Interdisciplinary research > Philosophy.
Anthropologie et histoire > Inde.
Archives d'anthropologie > Inde.
Recherche interdisciplinaire > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropological archives.
Anthropology and history.
Education, Higher > Philosophy.
India.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : passage to India
  • Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history
  • Autobiography of an archive
  • Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown
  • Castes of mind
  • Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact
  • The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India
  • Imperial sovereignty
  • Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism
  • The idea of empire
  • In near ruins
  • G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge
  • South Asian studies : futures past
  • Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account
  • Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university
  • The opening of the American mind.

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