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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457656903321

Titolo

Consuming modernity [[electronic resource] ] : public culture in a South Asian world / / Carol A. Breckenridge, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1995

ISBN

0-8166-8532-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BreckenridgeCarol Appadurai <1942-2009.>

Disciplina

306/.0954

Soggetti

Popular culture - India

Electronic books.

India Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; One. Public Modernity in India; Part I. The Historical Past; Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio; Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels; Five. Dining Out in Bombay; Part II. The Historical Present; Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu; Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film; Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art

Nine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New DelhiContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The contributors address the roles intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites they explore include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants, and tourism.