Stitches on Time - Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles

Informationen zum Autor Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community. Klappentext A critical analysis of histories and anthropologies of South Asia, seen in relation to the subaltern studies project, and several examples of how colonial history might be done differently. Zusammenfassung Probes the relationships between empire and modernity! nation and history! the colonial and the postcolonial! and power and difference. This title combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Colonial Textures 1 Traveling Light 31 2 Evangelical Entanglements 52 3 Telling Tales 76 4 Entitlements and Enmities 103 Postcolonial Tangles 5 Subaltern Subjects >6 Pilgrims’ Progress 164 7 The Enchanted and the Modern 177 Afterword 187 Notes >Glossary 231 Bibliography 233 Index 255

Product details

• Authors: DUBE, Saurabh Dube, Saurabh Dube
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2004
• EAN: 9780822333258
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3325-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Anthropologie, Südostasien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte