Smriti Srinivas

A Place for Utopia

Urban Designs from South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

Smriti Srinivas is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India¿s High-Tech City; In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement; and The Mouths of People, The Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in the Frontier Commuinty of Ladakh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 229mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780295997384
• ISBN-10: 0295997389
• Artikelnr.: 45052186

Autorenporträt

Smriti Srinivas, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, is the author of In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Brill & Orient Longman, 2008), Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (Oxford University Press, 1998)

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction Placing Timelines
1. Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia
2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City
3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta
4. Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age
Conclusion Designing and Dwelling in Place
Notes
References
Index