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Unfinished Gestures

- Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780226768106
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 312
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. januar 2012
  • Størrelse:
  • 159x222x17 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 502 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 20. november 2024

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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.

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