Author: Angela Schlenkhoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231702102
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
International and nongovernmental organizations, as well as journalists, are excellent sources of information on contemporary Afghanistan. Unfortunately, their expertise often goes untapped by those who hope to better understand the country's complexity. Beyond the 'Wild Tribes'draws on these perspectives to build a comprehensive portrait of Afghanistan and its widely dispersed peoples and cultures. Contributors cull a wealth of research, effectively collapsing the myths and stereotypes perpetuated by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European texts. Their wide-ranging essays address everything from the causes of the country's protracted conflicts to the nature and future of its musical traditions. Anyone hoping for an intimate, engaging, and uncommon encounter with an increasingly visible nation will relish the insight of this expertly crafted collection.
Beyond the Wild Tribes
Author: Angela Schlenkhoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231702102
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
International and nongovernmental organizations, as well as journalists, are excellent sources of information on contemporary Afghanistan. Unfortunately, their expertise often goes untapped by those who hope to better understand the country's complexity. Beyond the 'Wild Tribes'draws on these perspectives to build a comprehensive portrait of Afghanistan and its widely dispersed peoples and cultures. Contributors cull a wealth of research, effectively collapsing the myths and stereotypes perpetuated by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European texts. Their wide-ranging essays address everything from the causes of the country's protracted conflicts to the nature and future of its musical traditions. Anyone hoping for an intimate, engaging, and uncommon encounter with an increasingly visible nation will relish the insight of this expertly crafted collection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231702102
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
International and nongovernmental organizations, as well as journalists, are excellent sources of information on contemporary Afghanistan. Unfortunately, their expertise often goes untapped by those who hope to better understand the country's complexity. Beyond the 'Wild Tribes'draws on these perspectives to build a comprehensive portrait of Afghanistan and its widely dispersed peoples and cultures. Contributors cull a wealth of research, effectively collapsing the myths and stereotypes perpetuated by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European texts. Their wide-ranging essays address everything from the causes of the country's protracted conflicts to the nature and future of its musical traditions. Anyone hoping for an intimate, engaging, and uncommon encounter with an increasingly visible nation will relish the insight of this expertly crafted collection.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Wild Tribes of India
Author: Shoshee Chunder Dutt
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Other Empire
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719060182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects - those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains.Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719060182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects - those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains.Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.
Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London
Author: Ethnological Society (London)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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A History of England
Author: Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London
Author: Ethnological Society of London
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Ethnography
Author: Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Sharpe's London Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Diogenes
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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