Protestant Textuality And The Tamil Modern

Author : Bernard Bate
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503628663

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Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern by Bernard Bate Pdf

Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.

Author : Francis Cody
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780801469015

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The Light of Knowledge by Francis Cody Pdf

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.

Author : James Rennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1785
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015034801558

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Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan by James Rennell Pdf

Author : Bernard Bate
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231147569

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Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic by Bernard Bate Pdf

This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transformations in society at large. It explores the aesthetics of Tamil oratory and its vital relationship to one of the key institutions of modern society: democracy. Therefore this book also bears on the centrality of language to the modern human condition. Though Tamil oratory is a relatively new practice in south India, the Dravidian (or Tamil nationalist) style employs archaic forms of Tamil that suggest an ancient mode of speech. Beginning with the advent of mass democratic politics in the 1940s, a new generation of politician adopted this style, known as "fine," or "beautiful Tamil" ( centamil), for its distinct literary virtuosity, poesy, and alluring evocation of a pure Tamil past. Bernard Bate explores the centamil phenomenon, arguing that the genre's spectacular literacy and use of ceremonial procession, urban political ritual, and posters, praise poetry are critical components in the production of a singularly Tamil mode of political modernity: a Dravidian neoclassicism. From his perspective, the centamil revolution and Dravidian neoclassicism suggest that modernity is not the mere successor of tradition but the production of tradition, and that this production is a primary modality of modernity, a new newness-albeit a newness of old things.

Author : Anand Pandian,Daud Ali
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion and ethics
ISBN : 9780253355287

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Ethical Life in South Asia by Anand Pandian,Daud Ali Pdf

Outgrowth of an international workshop on the subject of South Asian ethical practices held in Vancouver, Canada in September 2007.

Author : Bates Cody
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781486618125

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The Devil's Pupil by Bates Cody Pdf

Only God can bring a dead man back to life. On the outside, Cody Bates appeared as any other normal kid on the playground. But abuse, prescription drugs, and bullying had produced anything but a normal human being. Before long, his preteen drug addiction and young offender incarcerations transitioned into narcotic trafficking, gangs, murder, and life in a maximum-security prison. Organized crime, counter-surveillance, and violent stiff-arm tactics became Cody’s way of life as he fought desperately for the things of this world—money, power, women, and drugs. To counter the crippling emptiness that consumed him day after day, he resorted to the only solution he had: cocaine. As his health deteriorated and his addiction worsened, he fell deeper into psychosis where he encountered the demonic faces, whispers, and sirens no one but him could see and hear. The future appeared bleak as he fell deeper into the devil’s hands. It seemed obvious to everyone that there was only one way this could all end. But there are things far worse than death for a man intent on destroying everything and everyone in his path.

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134632343

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Orientalism and Religion by Richard King Pdf

Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.

Author : Matthew Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439023

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Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala by Matthew Martin Pdf

For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala.

Author : Douglas Brown,Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476670799

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Rerolling Boardgames by Douglas Brown,Esther MacCallum-Stewart Pdf

Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.

Author : Guy R. Neave
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789231040405

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Knowledge, Power and Dissent by Guy R. Neave Pdf

This publication is based on the discussions of the 2004 Global Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, held in Paris in December 2004. It contains contributions from 17 international experts in the field of higher education which explore the global rise of the 'knowledge society' and its implications for higher education and for sustainable human development in the future.

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691234557

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Comparing the Literatures by David Damrosch Pdf

Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.

Author : Claude Markovits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107186750

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India and the World by Claude Markovits Pdf

India in the global economy -- India in global human circulations -- India in the world of wars and peace -- India in the global exchange of ideas -- India in global cultural circulations -- Indians and others -- Epilogue: Two Indian global events.

Author : Daniel Augustus Beaufort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Ireland
ISBN : OCLC:731611022

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Memoir of a Map of Ireland by Daniel Augustus Beaufort Pdf

Author : V. Pitts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403979438

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In the Flesh by V. Pitts Pdf

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies - not only tattooing, but piercing, cyberpunk and such 'neotribal' practices as scarification. She interprets the stories of sixteen body modifiers (as well as some subcultural magazines and films) using the tools of feminist and queer theory. Pitts not only covers a hot topic but also situates it in a theoretical context.

Author : Sheldon Pollock,Benjamin A. Elman,Ku-ming Kevin Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674052864

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World Philology by Sheldon Pollock,Benjamin A. Elman,Ku-ming Kevin Chang Pdf

Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia after decades of neglect. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and historical time periods in which it has been practiced, and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is an essential component of human understanding. Every civilization has developed ways of interpreting the texts that it produces, and differences of philological practice are as instructive as the similarities. We owe our idea of a textual edition for example, to the third-century BCE scholars of the Alexandrian Library. Rabbinical philology created an innovation in hermeneutics by shifting focus from how the Bible commands to what it commands. Philologists in Song China and Tokugawa Japan produced startling insights into the nature of linguistic signs. In the early modern period, new kinds of philology arose in Europe but also among Indian, Chinese, and Japanese commentators, Persian editors, and Ottoman educationalists who began to interpret texts in ways that had little historical precedent. They made judgments about the integrity and consistency of texts, decided how to create critical editions, and determined what it actually means to read. Covering a wide range of cultures—Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Indo-Persian, Japanese, Ottoman, and modern European—World Philology lays the groundwork for a new scholarly discipline.