03789nam 22006495 450 991046502660332120210114110611.00-226-73486-210.7208/9780226734866(CKB)3710000000185750(EBL)2130112(OCoLC)680443093(SSID)ssj0001267515(PQKBManifestationID)12470310(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267515(PQKBWorkID)11264409(PQKB)10322563(DE-B1597)523591(OCoLC)1135591209(DE-B1597)9780226734866(MiAaPQ)EBC2130112(EXLCZ)99371000000018575020200424h20092008 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrBengal in Global Concept History Culturalism in the Age of Capital /Andrew SartoriChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]©20081 online resource (288 p.)Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-73493-5 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Bengali "Culture" as a Historical Problem -- CHAPTER TWO. Culture as a Global Concept -- CHAPTER THREE. Bengali Liberalism and British Empire -- CHAPTER FOUR. Hinduism as Culture -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Conceptual Structure of an Indigenist Nationalism -- CHAPTER SIX. Reification, Rarification, and Radicalization -- CONCLUSION. Universalistic Particularisms and Parochial Cosmopolitanisms -- Notes -- IndexToday people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts. Sartori weaves the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept, from its origins in eighteenth-century Germany, through its adoption in England in the early 1800s, to its appearance in distinct local guises across the non-Western world. The impetus for the concept's dissemination was capitalism, Sartori argues, as its spread across the globe initiated the need to celebrate the local and the communal. Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not by slavish imitation of colonizing powers, but by the same problems that repeatedly followed the advance of modern capitalism. This remarkable interdisciplinary study will be of significant interest to historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism. Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningBengal (India) - CivilizationCultureEconomic aspectsBengalIndiaRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle EastHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCSouth AsiaHILCCElectronic books.Bengal (India) - Civilization.CultureEconomic aspectsRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle EastHistory & ArchaeologySouth Asia954.14Sartori Andrew, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut887056DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910465026603321Bengal in Global Concept History1980894UNINA