Autobiography of an archive : a scholar's passage to India / Nicholas B. Dirks.
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TextSeries: Cultures of historyPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 390 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788178244587 (hbk.)Subject(s): Anthropology and history -- India | Anthropological archives -- India | Education, Higher -- Philosophy -- United States | Interdisciplinary research -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 301.0954 | Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 301.0954 DIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Acc.No. 1609 | IDS1220 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index.
Introduction : passage to India -- Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history -- Autobiography of an archive -- Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown -- Castes of mind -- Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact -- The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India -- Imperial sovereignty -- Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism -- The idea of empire -- In near ruins -- G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge -- South Asian studies : futures past -- Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account -- Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university -- The opening of the American mind.
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