Unfinished Gestures - Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Informationen zum Autor Davesh Soneji is associate professor of South Asian religions at McGill University. He is coeditor of Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India and editor of Bharatanatyam: A Reader. Klappentext Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India. Zusammenfassung Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis! focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Davesh Soneji, Devesh Soneji, Soneji Davesh
• Edition: University Of Chicago Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 06.01.2012
• EAN: 9780226768106
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76810-6
• Pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Thèmes: South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, India, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls