Cultural Allotropy

Author : Vinay Bharat
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482855913

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Cultural Allotropy by Vinay Bharat Pdf

This research work spins around the issue of cultural allotropy, which we all have experienced at different levels; however, a conscious realization regarding it might be missing to some extent. Centuries of political intervention and subjugation by foreign countries results in the presence of a mixed culture and this side-by-side flourishing of two cultures seems now an accepted fact, a part of mans consciousness. But the presence of two contradictory sets of valuesone not fully accepted and the other not totally rejectedgives rise to a difficult situation in the face of the conflicting claims of the two. This gives rise to a mixing of cultures, a blend which in other words may be called cultural allotropythat is, existence of the culture of a particular region in two or more forms, having different and mixed properties at the emotional or intellectual level at a given point of time. Going beyond the political subjugation in the era of globalization, it has now become a matter of economic and cultural subjugation. Undoubtedly, our cultural allotropy is a byproduct of modern economic compulsions also. Through different Indian English novelists, I have tried to intrigue the issues via different portrayals and characters and finally posed a question, What is it to be an Indian?

Author : Vinay Bharat
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1482855925

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Cultural Allotropy by Vinay Bharat Pdf

This research work spins around the issue of cultural allotropy, which we all have experienced at different levels; however, a conscious realization regarding it might be missing to some extent. Centuries of political intervention and subjugation by foreign countries results in the presence of a mixed culture and this side-by-side flourishing of two cultures seems now an accepted fact, a part of man's consciousness. But the presence of two contradictory sets of values-one not fully accepted and the other not totally rejected-gives rise to a difficult situation in the face of the conflicting claims of the two. This gives rise to a mixing of cultures, a blend which in other words may be called cultural allotropy-that is, existence of the culture of a particular region in two or more forms, having different and mixed properties at the emotional or intellectual level at a given point of time. Going beyond the political subjugation in the era of globalization, it has now become a matter of economic and cultural subjugation. Undoubtedly, our cultural allotropy is a byproduct of modern economic compulsions also. Through different Indian English novelists, I have tried to intrigue the issues via different portrayals and characters and finally posed a question, "What is it to be an Indian?"

Author : Anita Girvan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317218654

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Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors by Anita Girvan Pdf

Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor. The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public contexts since the turn of the millennium, yet this metaphor remains under-examined as a crucial mediator of political responses to the urgent crisis of climate change. Existing books and articles on the carbon footprint typically treat this metaphor as a quantifying metric, with little attention to the shifting mediations and practices of the carbon footprint as a metaphor. This gap echoes a wider gap in understanding metaphors as key figures in mediating more-than-human relations at a time when such relations profoundly matter. As a timely intervention, this book addresses this gap by using insights from environmental humanities and political ecology to discuss carbon footprint metaphors in popular and public texts. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental communication, and metaphor studies.

Author : Peter J. Ramberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350251540

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century by Peter J. Ramberg Pdf

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1815 to 1914 and the birth of modern chemistry. The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices. The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry. At the turn of the century, the discovery of radioactivity took hold of the public imagination, drawing chemistry closer to physics, even as it threatened to undermine the whole concept of atomism. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first comprehensive history from the Bronze Age to today, covering all forms and aspects of chemistry and its ever-changing social context. The themes covered in each volume are theory and concepts; practice and experiment; laboratories and technology; culture and science; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation. Peter J. Ramberg is Professor of the History of Science at Truman State University, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Chemistry set. General Editors: Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK, and Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Author : Shankar Mokashi-Punekar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015030936820

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Theoretical & Practical Studies in Indo-English Literature by Shankar Mokashi-Punekar Pdf

Author : Egon Friedell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535809

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A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell Pdf

Volume three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume. Friedell describes the contents of these books as a series of performances, starting with the birth of the man of the Modern Age, followed by flowering of this epoch, and concludes with the death of the Modern Age. This huge landscape provides an intertwining of the material and the cultural, the civil and the military, from the high points of creative flowering in Europe to death and emptiness. The themes convey multiple messages: romanticism and liberalism opens the cultural scene, encased in a movement from The Congress of Vienna and its claims of peaceful co-existence to the Franco-German War. The final segment covers the period from Bismarck's generation to World War I. In each instance, the quotidian life of struggle, racial, religious, and social class is seen through the lens of the mighty figures of the period. The works of the period's great figures are shown in the new light of the human search for symbolism, the search for superman, the rise of individualism and decline of history as a source for knowledge. This third volume is painted in dark colors, a foreboding of the world that was to come, of political extremes, and intellectual exaggerations. The author looks forward to a postmodern Europe in which there is a faint glean of light from the other side. What actually appeared was the glare of Nazism and Communism, each claiming the future.

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134129478

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Buddhism, Power and Political Order by Ian Harris Pdf

This volume brings together the brightest minds in the study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia to create a more coherent account of the relations between Buddhism and political order in the late pre-modern and modern period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X030049102

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Glory of India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Indic poetry (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015033977607

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Indian Poetry in English by Makarand R. Paranjape Pdf

This new anthology features nearly 200 poems by thirty-one poets representing over 160 years of Indian Poetry in English.

Author : Andrew McClellan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780470776711

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Art and Its Publics by Andrew McClellan Pdf

Bringing together essays by museum professionals and academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Art and its Publics tackles current issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice around the most pressing of contemporary concerns. Brings together essays that focus on the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public. Tackles issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice. Presents a cross-section of contemporary concerns with contributions from museum professionals as well as academics. Part of the New Interventions in Art History series, published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.

Author : Andrea Woody,Robin Findlay Hendry,Paul Needham
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780444516756

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Philosophy of Chemistry by Andrea Woody,Robin Findlay Hendry,Paul Needham Pdf

Philosophy of Chemistry investigates the foundational concepts and methods of chemistry, the science of the nature of substances and their transformations. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of chemistry ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out the central topics in the field. The 33 articles address the history of the philosophy of chemistry and the philosophical importance of some central figures in the history of chemistry; the nature of chemical substances; central chemical concepts and methods, including the chemical bond, the periodic table and reaction mechanisms; and chemistry's relationship to other disciplines such as physics, molecular biology, pharmacy and chemical engineering. This volume serves as a detailed introduction for those new to the field as well as a rich source of new insights and potential research agendas for those already engaged with the philosophy of chemistry. Provides a bridge between philosophy and current scientific findings Encourages multi-disciplinary dialogue Covers theory and applications

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809098

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Writing Wrongs by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and children, examining the formal properties of victim texts for their documentation of trauma, and analyzing the role of the sympathetic imagination, Writing Wrongs inaugurates a whole new field in literary–cultural studies by focusing on the narratives that build the culture of Human Rights. It argues for taking this cultural apparatus as essential to the political and legal dimensions of Human Rights. The book emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary–cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies, arguing that a public culture of Human Rights has a key role to play in revitalizing civil society and its institutions. It will be of interest to Human Rights scholars and activists, and those in political science, sociology, literary and cultural studies, narrative theory and psychology.

Author : Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674298713

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The Female Body in Western Culture by Susan Rubin Suleiman Pdf

The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, its images pervading poetry and story, mythology and religious doctrine, the visual arts, and scientific treatises. It has inspired both attraction and fear, been perceived as beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and nurturing but also a source of evil and destruction. In The Female Body in Western Culture, twenty-three internationally noted scholars and critics, in specially commissioned essays, explore these representations and their consequences for contemporary art and culture. Ranging from Genesis to Gertrude Stein and Angela Carter, from ancient Greek ritual to the Victorian sleeping cure, from images of the Madonna to modern film and Surrealist art, the essays cover a wide spectrum of approaches and subject mailer. They all converge, however, around questions of power and powerlessness, voice and silence, subjecthood and objectification. And they point the way to the new possibilities and displacements of traditional male-female oppositions. Androgyny in a new key? This book demonstrates that a blurring of gender boundaries does not have to deny difference.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456145

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The Century Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Indrek Männiste
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501340017

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D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity by Indrek Männiste Pdf

While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has been dedicated to this topic. This collection of newly commissioned essays by a cast of international scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence's peculiar relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and varied aspects. Addressing themes such as pastoral vs. industrial, mining, war, robots, ecocriticism, technologies of the self, film, poetic devices of technology, entertainment, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate Lawrence's complicated standing within the modernist literary tradition and reveal the true theoretical wealth of a writer whose whole life and work, according to T.S. Eliot, "was an assertion of what the modern world has lost."