Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold.
Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold.
Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1426
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Burning issues -- Colonial necropolitics and the polysemic corpse -- The city and its dead -- Consuming fire -- The global dead -- The rebirth of cremation -- Cremation and the nation -- Epilogue : rethinking the Hindu Pyre
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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California
Date Published
[2021]
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"Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the "traditional" practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refash...
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Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/1426
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74VKaVberJOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaVberJOM
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0520379349
9780520379343
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294.5388
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991024416606202626
