Place for Utopia - Urban Designs From South Asia

Informationen zum Autor Smriti Srinivas, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, is the author of In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Brill & Orient Longman, 2008), Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (Oxford University Press, 1998) Klappentext Smriti Srinivas is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India¿s High-Tech City ; In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement; and The Mouths of People, The Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in the Frontier Commuinty of Ladakh. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction | Placing Timelines 1. Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia 2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City 3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta 4. Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age Conclusion | Designing and Dwelling in Place Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Smriti Srinivas
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9780295997384
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99738-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Global South Asia; Global South Asia; Global South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaA Place for Utopia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education