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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Imagining the Urban Sanskrit and the City in Early India

Kaul Shonaleeka

ISBN: HB: 9781906497811, Seagull Books, March 2011
278 pp., 22.4x15 cm

In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics – both physical and social – of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kavyas to see what India's early historic ci...

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Performing Arts

Anthropology

Theatre of Roots Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage

Mee Erin B.

ISBN: PB: 9781905422760, ISBN: HB: 9781905422753, Seagull Books, November 2008
432 pp., 23x15.6 cm, 24 halftones

After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an "Indian" theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their "roots" in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, p...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology

Uberoi Patricia, Sundar Nandini, Deshpande Satish

ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm

Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India

Chakravorty Pallabi

ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones

This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...

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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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Music

Anthropology

Bards, Ballads and Boundaries An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan

Kothari Komal, Neuman Daniel, Chaudhuri Shubha

ISBN: HB: 9781905422074, Seagull Books, March 2007
540 pp., 29.6x20.6 cm, 70 coluor maps, 34 tables, 124 colour illus.

"Bards, Ballads and Boundaries" presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. B...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods The Ramlila of Ramnagar

Kapur Anuradha

ISBN: PB: 9781905422203, ISBN: HB: 9781905422197, Seagull Books, June 2006
258 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 62 halftones

The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Men, women and children follow the course of th...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present

Fisch Joerg

ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones

"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...

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