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Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
.... This chapter focuses on the exclusion of Muslim minorities in Europe, India, and China and the civilizational legitimation of that exclusion. It highlights the similarities and differences in these patterns of exclusion. civilization civility civil society Islam Muslim immigration ...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 22 January 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822377009-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7700-9
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By Peter van der Veer
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... Indian middle class India-China slavery untouchability Dalit ...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... locations, the small scale of their societies, and their cultural differences from the civilizations that are adjacent to them in the plains. The chapter critiques forms of romanticization of those who live in the mountain areas that connect India and China and attempts to give a contextualized picture...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... China India dating shows individualization love and reality TV arranged marriages love relationships ...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... with the life conditions of the poor. Indian middle class India-China slavery untouchability Dalit ...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... This chapter goes to the heart of civilization practice, namely the religious worship of images in India and China and especially the recurrent campaigns to destroy them. It examines the variegated histories of iconoclasm in India and China and the problem of sovereignty that is central to them...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... of hierarchy and difference. This chapter focuses on the exclusion of Muslim minorities in Europe, India, and China and the civilizational legitimation of that exclusion. It highlights the similarities and differences in these patterns of exclusion. civilization civility civil society Islam Muslim...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... Chapter 7 moves into the territory of love and relationships. In recent years, TV audiences in both China and India have been exposed to a growing number of reality and lifestyle shows focused on dating, marriage, parenting, and love relationships. While, like spirituality, the affective...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... that emerge there from the confluence of religious, supernatural beliefs and late modern media cultures. While religious programming is banned by the state in China, in India and Taiwan, a variety of gods, sages, sacred texts, and rituals are presented to and interpreted for viewers to help them manage...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... of their societies, and their cultural differences from the civilizations that are adjacent to them in the plains. The chapter critiques forms of romanticization of those who live in the mountain areas that connect India and China and attempts to give a contextualized picture of anthropological thinking about hill...
Published: 20 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375647-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7564-7
... Mill’s writings on free trade and representative government together with India Office and Foreign Office records regarding post–Opium War coastal China and Hong Kong. The new form of imperial governance expressed by nineteenth-century “free trade” in India and China consisted in the power to adapt...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375715-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7571-5
... urban variation that is emerging in fast-growing economies like India and China. First, the shape and trim of Gurgaon is not that of a single city but a collection of mini cities. Second, the character of Gurgaon appears defined more by other places than by its surroundings. Third, the city is gradually...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... capitals. The essay considers the contradictory meanings and appropriations of vernacular gramophone records, and, drawing on examples from Hawaii to Cuba, India to North Africa, it argues that phonograph recordings became a fundamental part of the cultural revolution that was decolonization, both through...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... who engage in anthropological inquiry are under pressure to avoid so-called sensitive topics. In India and China this has become a formidable obstacle for empirical research. Nevertheless, nationalism as the ideological expression of culture is one of the most important topics in social science...
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027409-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2740-9
... of laborers stymied French urban-planning visions. Indian families, in particular, harnessed the architectural inertia of their homes to contest and negotiate colonial encroachment, but the arrival of recruited workers from China and India, and outbreaks of the bubonic plague in 1902 and 1907, brought new...
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373643-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7364-3
... to be aligned with stages in an international career path. Foreign lab assistants, many from China and India, tend to view science more as an overseas job opportunity than a vocation. By contrast, locally born scientists, scientific virtue, and civic duty are entangled In the emergence of Singapore...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 08 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375692-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7569-2
... between 1530 and 1585 reflected incursions into new areas, especially the Rio de la Plata, Brazil, parts of India and Africa, China, and the Molucca Islands. An examination of three case studies of slaves in the Moluccas, Rio de la Plata, and Myanmar reveals the entangled nature of slavery from...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... of lifestyle programming in China Taiwan, and India, as well as the cultural economy of genres and formats in these sites. Combining policy analysis with institutional and historical snapshots, interviews with industry staffers, and mapping of television schedules and ratings, we outline the political...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
... of engagements with emergent forms of sociality and first and second modernities in India and China. cultural intermediaries popular pedagogy celebrity chefs makeover television popular TV experts ...