| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations; 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai's New Heritage; Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts; 2. Governing the Past: Chennai's Histories; 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics; 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage; Part 2. Restructured Memories; 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism's Cultural Economies; 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai; 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis; 8. Conclusion: "How Many Museums Can One Have?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnogra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- India -- Chennai.
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Collective memory. |
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India -- Chennai. |
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Cultural property -- India -- Chennai.
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Cultural property. |
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Chennai (India) -- Cultural policy.
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Collective memory.
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Cultural property.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hancock, Mary Elizabeth. Politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 9780253352231 0253352231 (DLC) 2008009116 (OCoLC)212893626 |
| ISBN |
9780253002655 (electronic book) |
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0253002656 (electronic book) |
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9780253352231 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253352231 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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