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Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition : Branding the Potters of Kolkata /
This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
National Book Network International : Anthem Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Diversity and plurality in South Asia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures ; Acknowledgments; Transliteration And Terminology; Chapter (Prologue-7); Prologue: The Durga Puja Business; The Old World; A New World; Chapter 1 On Kumars, Modernity, Caste and Commodification; Comprehending the Kumars; Making Modernity the Context; Indian origins; Caste between Structure and Practice; Short depiction of the caste system and the Bengali case; Conceptualizing and contextualizing caste; Dumont, critiques and alternatives; Caste today.
- Commodification and AuthenticityFieldwork in Kumartuli; On oral history; Kumartuli and the world; An Outline of the Book; Chapter 2 The Civilized Potters and their Neighbourhood; The First Kumar; Of Rudraksha and the forefather of Bengali Kumbhakars; Burning jungle and the first pottery; Behind the Potter's Wheel; The Development of Kumartuli
- the Story without Kumars; Kolkata; Kumartuli before and after Durga hits town; Life and Work as Seasonal Image-Makers of Kumartuli; The Potters' History and their Society; Contemporary Kumartuli Realities; Numbers and classes.
- The people
- Maliks, Kumars and KumbhakarsThe pujas and/as the Maliks' work; Constructing an unbaked clay murti; In the end; Chapter 3 Birth of Tradition, Coming of Modernity; Gopeshwar Pal
- an Artist?; 'We Used to Listen to These People's Names'; 'I Have to Accept My Father First, Only Then Can I Accept My Son'; 'The age of reproduction'; Innovation and pride; When Modernity Settled in Kumartuli; Chapter 4 Ancestral Homes
- East Versus West; On the Ground; The fight for independence; Partition; Bangal, East Bengal; Edeshi, West Bengal; West Ghotis and East Bangals Today.
- Chapter 5 Turmoil and EconomicsPatron-Client Economy; Kumartuli Bazaar; Political Turmoil; Indira Gandhi
- the Nationalization Redeemer; Maliks and Labourers; A Renewed Kumartuli Emerges; Chapter 6 Accumulated Value: Education and Caste as Assets; Successful Kumars of the Twenty-First Century; Prodyut
- broadband connected; Parimal
- presenting one's portfolio; Joyanta
- aspiring artist; Kumartuli reinvented, reimagined, reconfigured; A Kumartuli without Mud Floors; Modernity at Large: Caste for Sale; Chapter 7 Commodification of Caste; Caste versus Modernity.
- Caste in twenty-first century KumartuliHierarchy and purity; A Kumartuli Lesson; An image of the Kumars of Kumartuli; Commodification and the Illusions of Tradition; End Matter; References; Index.