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Bards, Ballads and Boundaries An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan
ISBN: HB: 9781905422074, Seagull Books, March 2007
540 pp., 29.6x20.6 cm, 70 coluor maps, 34 tables, 124 colour illus.
"Bards, Ballads and Boundaries" presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. B...
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£281,50
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Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan
ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Global Foreigners An Anthology of Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781905422425, ISBN: HB: 9781905422418, Seagull Books, December 2006
320 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 12 halftones
In Waxing West, Daniella, newly arrived in the US from Romania, is haunted by the ghosts of the deposed dictator Ceausescu and his wife Elena until she experiences 9/11. Thida San in Eyes of the Heart, cannot rid herself of the horrific memory of her...
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£19,00
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£79,00
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Sacred to Profane Writings on Worship and Performance
ISBN: PB: 9781905422166, ISBN: HB: 9781905422159, Seagull Books, October 2006
296 pp., 23x15.4 cm
These essays explore the intricate connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. In the process they challenge the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and open up the multifaceted poss...
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£24,00
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£82,50
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City Flicks Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781905422364, ISBN: HB: 9781905422357, Seagull Books, October 2006
240 pp., 23x15.6 cm
The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussions of urbanity...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Histories for the Subordinated
ISBN: PB: 9781905422388, ISBN: HB: 9781905422371, Seagull Books, October 2006
408 pp., 22.8x15.6 cm
"Histories for the Subordinated" brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Hardiman's practice as a historian – his enormously rich empiricism, archival work, and fieldwork, a...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History
ISBN: PB: 9781905422128, ISBN: HB: 9781905422111, Seagull Books, June 2006
350 pp., 21.2x14 cm
How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables"? Taking a subaltern approach – the view from below – "Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of H...
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£82,50
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Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods The Ramlila of Ramnagar
ISBN: PB: 9781905422203, ISBN: HB: 9781905422197, Seagull Books, June 2006
258 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 62 halftones
The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Men, women and children follow the course of th...
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Apu and After Re-visiting Ray's Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9781905422265, ISBN: HB: 9781905422258, Seagull Books, June 2006
260 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 25 halftones
Satyajit Ray's very first film, "Pather Panchali", established him as a leading presence in Indian cinema, and fifty years later he is still a major icon for filmmakers, viewers and scholars. This collection takes a fresh look at the major films of R...
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£24,00
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Vsevolod Pudovkin Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781905422241, ISBN: HB: 9781905422234, Seagull Books, June 2006
816 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm, 42 halftones
Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the "golden age" of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films – especially "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm over Asia" – are classics of silent cinema. Li...
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£35,50
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£82,50
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