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Anthropology

Fate of Rural Hell Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand

Anderson Benedict

ISBN: PB: 9780857424020, Seagull Books, October 2016
99 pp., 19.8x13.9 cm, 24 colour illus.

In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre...

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Culture Studies

Enactments

Festive Devils of the Americas

Cozart Riggio Milla, Marino Angela, Vignolo Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780857421791, Seagull Books, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil – the devil that dances – turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first vol...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

Fly Away, Pigeon

Nadj Abonji Melinda

ISBN: HB: 9780857422125, Seagull Books, November 2014
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Fly Away, Pigeon" tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative s...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Finding Forgotten Cities How the Indus Civilization was Discovered

Lahiri Nayanjot

ISBN: PB: 9780857421128, Seagull Books, May 2013
410 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that rewrote the history books: he proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Within weeks, Marshall's discovery was recognized as on the same s...

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Film Studies

Framing the Nation Languages of Modernity in India

Sircar Ajanta

ISBN: HB: 9781906497309, Seagull Books, May 2011
172 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

As recent films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring anew a fascination...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Flaming Feet and Other Essays The Dalit Movement in India

Nagaraj D. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781906497804, Seagull Books, March 2011
282 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics – the Dalit being a self-designatio...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Fable of the World A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in Our Times

Mairet Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9781906497194, Seagull Books, September 2010
346 pp., 19.8x16 cm

Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state – eventually, t...

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Film Studies

From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century

Mulay Vijaya

ISBN: PB: 9781905422968, ISBN: HB: 9781905422951, Seagull Books, March 2009
554 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm

Brahmins named Iftikar, Buddhist rites in Hindu Shiva temples, Indian maidens dressed like Arabian harem girls – right from the birth of cinema, international movies have been wildly inventive in their fantastical imagining of India. In fact, images...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Linkenbach Antje

ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures

Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....

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Cultural Studies

Feeding the Gods Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal

Banerji Chitrita

ISBN: HB: 9781905422104, Seagull Books, June 2006
128 pp., 20x14.4 cm, 28 halftones

As the pungent fragrance of spices transports the author back into memories of childhood, we too are plunged headlong into the rich tastes, textures and colours of food in her native Bengal. Here, food is a ritualised and intrinsic part of the cultur...

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