Remoteness And Modernity

Author : Shafqat Hussain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213352
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remoteness and Modernity written by Shafqat Hussain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. He also explores how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world.

Author : Shafqat Hussain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300205554
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remoteness and Modernity written by Shafqat Hussain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating anthropological inquiry into remote areas as understood by their inhabitants and by the outsiders who encounter them This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. He also explores the Hunza people's perceptions of British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world.

Author : Charles Piot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618983X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remotely Global written by Charles Piot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452941726
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture since 1400 written by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown’s suburban tract housing and the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world’s most celebrated structures and spaces along with many examples of more humble vernacular buildings. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 photographs, plans, and interiors, this book presents key moments and innovations in architectural modernity around the globe. Deftly integrating architectural and social history, Kathleen James-Chakraborty pays particular attention to the motivations of client and architect in the design and construction of environments both sacred and secular: palaces and places of worship as well as such characteristically modern structures as the skyscraper, the department store, and the cinema. She also focuses on the role of patrons and addresses to an unparalleled degree the impact of women in commissioning, creating, and inhabiting the built environment, with Gertrude Jekyll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Zaha Hadid taking their place beside Brunelleschi, Sinan, and Le Corbusier. Making clear that visionary architecture has never been the exclusive domain of the West and recognizing the diversity of those responsible for commissioning, designing, and constructing buildings, Architecture since 1400 provides a sweeping, cross-cultural history of the built environment over six centuries.

Author : Hua Bai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816117
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Remote Country of Women written by Hua Bai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In altering chapers, the novel tells the stories of Sunamei, a young woman from a rural matriarchal community, and Lian Rui, a self-absorbed man who is also weary witness to the Cultural Revolution. Through his two protagonists, the author addresses themes of the repression and freedon of sexuality, the brutality of modernity, and the fluidity of gender roles as the novel moves hypnotically and inevitably toward a collision between two worlds.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192698443
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Prose written by Dominic Head and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.

Author : Louis Arthur Goodeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Law of Real Property written by Louis Arthur Goodeve and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sruthi S
Publisher : RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9393239665
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS: VOLUME-4 written by Sruthi S and published by RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Charles Wermuth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Modern American Law: Leading illustrative cases written by William Charles Wermuth and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: