Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 / / edited by Sandria B. Freitag

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1989]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 954/.2
• Soggetto topico: Power (Social sciences)
• Soggetto geografico: Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Civilization
• Persona (resp. second.): FreitagSandria B.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Rām's story in Shiva's city : public arenas and private patronage / Philip Lutgendorf -- The birth of Hindi drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 / Kathryn Hansen -- The rise of a folk music genre : Birahā / Scott L. Marcus -- Protection and identity : Banaras's Bīr Babas as neighborhood guardian deities / Diane M. Coccari -- Work and leisure in the formation of identity : Muslim weavers in a Hindu city / Nita Kumar -- Forging a new linguistic identity : the Hindi movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 / Christopher R. King -- State and community : symbolic popular protest in Banaras's public areas / Sandria B. Freitag -- Land use and environmental change in the Gangetic Plain : nineteenth-century human activity in the Banaras Region / Robert G. Varady -- The ecology and cosmology of disease in the Banaras Region / David Arnold.
• Altri titoli varianti: Community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and power in Banaras
• ISBN: 0-585-11111-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495873603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II