03088nam 2200637 450 991082027240332120200520144314.01-78238-243-710.1515/9781782382430(CKB)2550000001239293(EBL)1375260(SSID)ssj0001132577(PQKBManifestationID)12414968(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132577(PQKBWorkID)11154808(PQKB)11600099(MiAaPQ)EBC1375260(Au-PeEL)EBL1375260(CaPaEBR)ebr10856039(CaONFJC)MIL585845(OCoLC)875096002(DE-B1597)637377(DE-B1597)9781782382430(EXLCZ)99255000000123929320140414h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMetallic modern everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka /Nira WickramasingheFirst edition.New York :Berghahn Books,2014.©20141 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-242-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction - Exploring Sri Lanka's Modern: Multiple Loops of Belonging; Chapter 1 - Following the Singer Sewing Machine: Fashioning a Market in a British Crown Colony; Chapter 2 - Creating a Market Imaginary; Chapter 3 - Paths to a Buddhist Modern: From Siam to America; Chapter 4 - The Gramophone: Soulful Sounds and Sacred Speeches; Chapter 5 - An Asian Modern: Japan; Chapter 6 - Trams, Cars, Bicycles: Modern Machines in the City; Chapter 7 - A Tailor's Tale and Machines in the Home; Chapter 8 - Working like MachinesConclusion - Metallic ModernGlossary; Bibliography; Index Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The 'metallic modern' of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic IndustriesSocial aspectsSri LankaHistoryConsumption (Economics)Sri LankaCivilization, ModernIndustriesSocial aspectsHistory.Consumption (Economics)Civilization, Modern.338.095493Wickramasinghe Nira628805MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820272403321Metallic modern3977929UNINA