Contacts Between Cultures: South Asia

Contacts Between Cultures: South Asia PDF Author:
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
The papers included in these volumes, with their wide geographical and disciplinary range, and long time span, reflect the comprehensive nature of the Congress.

Early Interactions Between South and Southeast Asia

Early Interactions Between South and Southeast Asia PDF Author: Pierre-Yves Manguin
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9814345105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known "classical" times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.

Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia

Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia PDF Author: Shyam Saran
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811073171
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic heritage), language, scripts and folklore, performing arts, painting and sculpture, architecture, role of the Indian Diaspora, contemporary cultural interaction, etc.

Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Culture, Creation, and Procreation PDF Author: Monika Böck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819123
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Culture and Politics in South Asia

Culture and Politics in South Asia PDF Author: Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351656139
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions to protest movements, folk songs to cinematic reconstructions and elections to war-torn regions, the chapters in the book bring the multiple voices embedded within the grand theatre of popular performance and the cultural landscape of the region to the fore. Breaking new ground, this work will prove useful to students and researchers in sociology and social anthropology, art and performance studies, political studies and international relations, communication and media studies and culture studies.

An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History

An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History PDF Author: Karl J. Schmidt
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765637574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
This study presents a thorough analysis of fascism, its manifestations in Russian political and cultural history, and fascist tendencies and movements in contemporary Russian society.

Global Digital Cultures

Global Digital Cultures PDF Author: Aswin Punathambekar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.

Contacts Between Cultures: Eastern Asia

Contacts Between Cultures: Eastern Asia PDF Author:
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
The papers included in these volumes, with their wide geographical and disciplinary range, and long time span, reflect the comprehensive nature of the Congress.

Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia

Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia PDF Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351584529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.

A Millennium of Cultural Contact

A Millennium of Cultural Contact PDF Author: Alistair Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315435713
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Alistair Paterson has written a comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. Beginning with the Norse intersection with indigenous peoples of Greenland, Paterson uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Based largely on the evidence of archaeology, he is able to detail the unique interactions at many specific points of contact and display the wide variations in exploration, conquest, colonization, avoidance, and resistance at various spots around the globe. Paterson’s broad, student-friendly treatment of the history and archaeology of the last millennium will be useful for courses in historical archaeology, world history, and social change.