Landscapes of Urban Memory
Landscapes of Urban Memory
- ISBN 13:
9780816636167
- ISBN 10:
0816636168
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/01/2001
- Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary
Through her analysis of this performance and its significance for the sense of the civic in Bangalore, Smriti Srinivas shows how constructions of locality and globality emerge from existing cultural milieus and how articulations of the urban are modes of cultural self-invention tied to historical, spatial, somatic, and ritual practices. The book highlights cultural practices embedded in urbanization, and moves beyond economistic arguments about globalization or their reliance on the European polis or the American metropolis as models.
Drawing from urban studies, sociology, anthropology, performance studies, religion, and history, Landscapes of Urban Memory grea