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Feeding the Gods Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal
ISBN: HB: 9781905422104, Seagull Books, June 2006
128 pp., 20x14.4 cm, 28 halftones
As the pungent fragrance of spices transports the author back into memories of childhood, we too are plunged headlong into the rich tastes, textures and colours of food in her native Bengal. Here, food is a ritualised and intrinsic part of the cultur...
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£19,00
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Phobic and the Erotic The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422142, Seagull Books, November 2005
518 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 20 halftones
A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us – the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the "alternative", the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic from t...
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£24,00
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Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones
"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...
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£79,00
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Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: HB: 9781905422012, Seagull Books, November 2005
128 pp., 20x14.6 cm
Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Above all, however, he was an embodiment of the engage intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an indi...
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£16,50
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Jinnah Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity
ISBN: PB: 9781905422098, ISBN: HB: 9781905422081, Seagull Books, November 2005
275 pp., 21x13.8 cm
This book analyses the development of Jinnah's relationship with India's Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah – that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist...
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£35,50
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£79,00
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