LEADER 04271nam 22006975 450 001 9910786622303321 005 20210114110611.0 010 $a0-226-73486-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226734866 035 $a(CKB)3710000000185750 035 $a(EBL)2130112 035 $a(OCoLC)680443093 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001267515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12470310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11264409 035 $a(PQKB)10322563 035 $a(DE-B1597)523591 035 $a(OCoLC)1135591209 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226734866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2130112 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038600 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000185750 100 $a20200424h20092008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBengal in Global Concept History $eCulturalism in the Age of Capital /$fAndrew Sartori 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2009] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aChicago Studies in Practices of Meaning 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-73493-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Bengali "Culture" as a Historical Problem -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Culture as a Global Concept -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Bengali Liberalism and British Empire -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Hinduism as Culture -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. The Conceptual Structure of an Indigenist Nationalism -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Reification, Rarification, and Radicalization -- $tCONCLUSION. Universalistic Particularisms and Parochial Cosmopolitanisms -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aToday people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts. Sartori weaves the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept, from its origins in eighteenth-century Germany, through its adoption in England in the early 1800s, to its appearance in distinct local guises across the non-Western world. The impetus for the concept's dissemination was capitalism, Sartori argues, as its spread across the globe initiated the need to celebrate the local and the communal. Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not by slavish imitation of colonizing powers, but by the same problems that repeatedly followed the advance of modern capitalism. This remarkable interdisciplinary study will be of significant interest to historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism. 410 0$aChicago Studies in Practices of Meaning 606 $aBengal (India) - Civilization 606 $aCulture$xEconomic aspects$zBengal$zIndia 606 $aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aSouth Asia$2HILCC 607 $aBengal (India)$xCivilization 607 $aBengal (India)$xHistoriography 610 $abengal, culturalism, germany, england, capitalism, colonialism, south asia, history, anthropology, civilization, historiography, liberalism, empire, politics, government, indigenous, nationalism, radicalization, rarification, reification, capital, economics, nonfiction, cosmopolitan, hinduism, religion, globalization, postcolonialism. 615 4$aBengal (India) - Civilization. 615 0$aCulture$xEconomic aspects 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aSouth Asia 676 $a954.14 700 $aSartori$b Andrew, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0887056 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786622303321 996 $aBengal in Global Concept History$93779746 997 $aUNINA