The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai /
In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office servic...
| Основен автор: | Hancock, Mary Elizabeth. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭2008.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=271874 |
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Print version::
Politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations; 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai's New Heritage; Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts; 2. Governing the Past: Chennai's Histories; 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics; 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage; Part 2. Restructured Memories; 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism's Cultural Economies; 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai; 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis; 8. Conclusion: "How Many Museums Can One Have?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index.