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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan
ISBN: 9780822328209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century of Indian Independence has wrought. It is an oral history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of Rajasthan as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Based on testimonies from the 1990s, this book stands as a polyvocal account of the radical political and environmental changes the region and its people have faced in the twentieth century. Not just the story of... In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast...
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130,13 zł |
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Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India
ISBN: 9780812249255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Jahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. With roots deep in history and legend, Shiptown (a literal translation of landlocked Jahazpur's name) today is a subdistrict headquarters and thus a regional hub for government services unavailable in villages. Rural and town lives have long intersected in Shiptown's market streets, which are crammed with shopping opportunities, many designed to allure village customers. Temples, mosques, and shrines attract Hindus and Muslims... Jahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian stat... |
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453,00 zł |
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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan
ISBN: 9780822328087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century of Indian Independence has wrought. It is an oral history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of Rajasthan as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Based on testimonies from the 1990s, this book stands as a polyvocal account of the radical political and environmental changes the region and its people have faced in the twentieth century. Not just the story of... In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast...
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515,49 zł |
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A Carnival of Parting
ISBN: 9780520075351 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis--a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing...
Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival...
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217,97 zł |
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Death, Beauty, Struggle: Untouchable Women Create the World
ISBN: 9780812249057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Death, Beauty, Struggle represents a long labor of love and the summation of forty years of Margaret Trawick's groundbreaking research. Centering her gaze on the lowest castes of India, now called Dalits, she describes the experience of women at this precarious level who are still treated as sub-human, sometimes by family members, sometimes by higher-caste men. Their private worlds, however, are full of art; rural Dalit women sing beautiful songs of their own making and tell remarkable narratives of their own lives. Much that Tamil women shared with Trawick is rooted in the... Death, Beauty, Struggle represents a long labor of love and the summation of forty years of Margaret Trawick's groundbreaking research. Cent... |
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364,49 zł |
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