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- Landscapes Of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High-Tech City
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Globalization and Community
summary
Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has today become a center for high-technology research and production, the new “Silicon Valley” of India, with a metropolitan population approaching six million. It is also the site of the very popular annual performance called the “Karaga” dedicated to Draupadi, the polyandrous wife of the heroes of the pan-Indian epic of the Mahabharata. Through her analysis of this performance and its significance for the sense of the civic in Bangalore, Smriti Srinivas shows how constructions of locality and globality emerge from existing cultural milieus and how articulations of the urban are modes of cultural self-invention tied to historical, spatial, somatic, and ritual practices. The book highlights cultural practices embedded in urbanization, and moves beyond economistic arguments about globalization or their reliance on the European polis or the American metropolis as models. Drawing from urban studies, sociology, anthropology, performance studies, religion, and history, Landscapes of Urban Memory greatly expands our understanding of how the civic is constructed.
Table of Contents
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- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xxviii
- 2. Models of the Garden City
- pp. 37-66
- 3. The Urban Performative Complex
- pp. 67-96
- 4. The Children of Fire
- pp. 97-138
- 6. Cities and Forests
- pp. 201-236
- Conclusion
- pp. 237-252
- Bibliography
- pp. 305-318
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816691777
Related ISBN(s)
9780816636167
MARC Record
OCLC
180702362
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No