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Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society
ISBN: 9781784539177 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion. This book explores South Asian youth cultures and fashion across the countries of this region and their diasporas from a transnational perspective. Through visual and textual analysis of film, photography and...
For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cu...
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474,76 |
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River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future
ISBN: 9780198786177 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health.
Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies,... India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millenni...
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119,88 |
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Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
ISBN: 9781526119056 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the world's drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor's letters written over a 40-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed reconstruction of a British planter's life in Asia at the high noon of empire. As well as charting...
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Pub...
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178,61 |
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Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan
ISBN: 9780773551244 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the...
From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they ...
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184,91 |
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The Epic of RAM
ISBN: 9780674975026 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Epic of Ram, Volume 4 turns to the story of Ram's younger half-brother Bharat. Despite efforts to place him on the throne of Avadh, Bharat refuses, ashamed that Ram has been exiled, and makes a pilgrimage to restore the true heir. This edition features the Avadhi text in the Devanagari script alongside the English translation.
The Epic of Ram, Volume 4 turns to the story of Ram's younger half-brother Bharat. Despite efforts to place him on the throne of Avadh, Bharat refuses...
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157,55 |
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Northeast India: A Place of Relations
ISBN: 9781107191297 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of Northeast India from within.
Explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of Northeast India from within.
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385,00 |
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Memories of a Lacerated Heart (1971): A War Memoir (From East Pakistan to Bangladesh)
ISBN: 9781490781495 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories of a Lacerated Heart gives us a painful insight into one of the most brutal and historically under-reported wars, and its effects not just on the country but on the mind of a patriotic and unassuming army officer. Memories of a Lacerated Heart gives us a painful insight into one of the most brutal and historically under-reported wars, and its effects not just... |
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98,35 |
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Memories of a Lacerated Heart (1971): A War Memoir (From East Pakistan to Bangladesh)
ISBN: 9781490781518 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories of a Lacerated Heart gives us a painful insight into one of the most brutal and historically under-reported wars, and its effects not just on the country but on the mind of a patriotic and unassuming army officer. Memories of a Lacerated Heart gives us a painful insight into one of the most brutal and historically under-reported wars, and its effects not just... |
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163,95 |
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Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
ISBN: 9780231179966 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best, and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans--both monastic and lay--have made meat a regular part of their diet. In this study of the place of vegetarianism within Tibetan religiosity, Geoffrey Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating. Food of Sinful Demons...
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at bes...
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615,48 |
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Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia
ISBN: 9780252082986 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation in which the fictional protagonist Muharram Ali, a man obsessed with finding music he believes will dissolve religious and political barriers, interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of...
Based on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and...
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114,89 |
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Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
ISBN: 9780295742496 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements�including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism�Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a... Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their live... |
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157,11 |
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India and China in the Colonial World
ISBN: 9781138102699 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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774,61 |
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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870
ISBN: 9781602584327 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploration of new Christian communities created by the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and Indian bhakti religious traditions reveals the birth and early growth of one of the many incarnations of Christianity.--Paul B. Courtright, Professor Emeritus Emory University
This exploration of new Christian communities created by the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and Indian bhakti religious trad...
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259,86 |
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The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder
ISBN: 9780822370642 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tulasi Srinivas uses the concept of wonder-feelings of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime-to examine how residents of Banglore, India pursue wonder by practicing Hindu religious rituals as a way to accept and resist neoliberal capitalism.
Tulasi Srinivas uses the concept of wonder-feelings of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime-to examine how residents of Banglore,...
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559,71 |
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The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder
ISBN: 9780822370796 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tulasi Srinivas uses the concept of wonder-feelings of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime-to examine how residents of Banglore, India pursue wonder by practicing Hindu religious rituals as a way to accept and resist neoliberal capitalism.
Tulasi Srinivas uses the concept of wonder-feelings of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime-to examine how residents of Banglore,...
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134,88 |
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Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance
ISBN: 9780824875220 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fragrant tropical flowers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelan orchestras, and, of course, aromatic coffee. Such are the exotic images of Javas. Through close readings of the careers of four "javaphiles", Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance explores a century of American representations of Javanese performing arts by North Americans.
Fragrant tropical flowers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelan orchestras, and, of course, aromatic coffee. Such are the exotic images o...
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104,90 |
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The Partition of British India
ISBN: 9781973722144 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts of the partition *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Beyond its obvious influence in areas like trade and commerce, the East India Company also served as a point of cultural contact between Western Europeans, South Asians, and East Asians. Quintessentially British practices such as tea drinking were made possible by East India Company trade. The products and cultural practices traveling back and forth on East India Company ships from one continent to another also reconfigured the way societies... *Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts of the partition *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading B... |
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42,34 |
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Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia: Sources and Boundaries
ISBN: 9783110553161 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'--debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain--and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses 'confrontation' as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and... The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'--debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, a... |
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452,25 |
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The Case For India
ISBN: 9781973768418 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpt from The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress, Held at Calcutta, 26th December, 1917
The short service system recently introduced into the British Army has increased the cost and has materially reduced the efficiency of the British troops in India. We cannot resist the feeling that, in the introduction of this system, the interest of the Indian tax-payer was entirely left out of consideration. The remark was certainly justified, for the short ser vice system gave India only five years of the recruits... Excerpt from The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress, Held at Calcutta, 2...
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33,03 |
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Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
ISBN: 9780226485485 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison those who sought Tibetan independence from China.
Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison t...
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99,95 |
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