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Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India - South Asia Across the Disciplines
Davesh Soneji
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India - South Asia Across the Disciplines
Davesh Soneji
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.
312 pages, 48 halftones, 6 line drawings
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 15 stycznia 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780226768106 |
Wydawcy | The University of Chicago Press |
Strony | 312 |
Wymiary | 159 × 222 × 17 mm · 502 g |
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