The integral nature of things: critical reflections on the present

Mani, Lata

ISBN: 9781138679580, 1138679585

This book interweaves prose with poetry and sociocultural analysis with observational accounts to offer an alternative framework for addressing aspects of the cognitive, cultural, political, and ethical crisis we face today.

Marginality in India: perspectives of marginalisation from the Northeast

Kikhi, Kedilezo et al.

ISBN: 9781032669403, 1032669403

Marginality in India is not an unusual phenomenon when compared with the other cultures of the globe; however, its sustainability on the primordial basis highlights the peculiarities that make India a classic example. In fact, the present liberalised scenario though has bestowed opportunities, but the scope of affirmative action too has marginalised leading to the status quo to a larger extent....

Performing identities: celebrating Indigeneity in the arts, ed. by G.N. Devy et al

ISBN: 9780367459543, 036745954X

The book is a pioneering account of the performance practices among indigenous communities from across the world. It highlights how the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous people are represented through their distinctive approaches and styles of `doing arts'; and how a divergent understanding of concepts such as space, time, joy, pain life, and death calls for a different aesthetic ...

Research methods for environmental studies: a social science approach, 2nd edn.

Kanazawa, Mark

ISBN: 9781032198408, 1032198400

Ritual, heritage and identity: the politics of culture and performance in a globalised world

Brosius, Christiane et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9781138541696, 1138541699

The volume is the first interdisciplinary attempt to understand the significance of rituals and related performative traditions in the creation of grounded cultural identities, and `home' and heritage as geographically experienceable locations.