| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index. |
| Contents |
Placing loss -- Science in the service of loss -- Occult losses -- Living loss at land's end -- Flooding history : geographies of loss -- Mapping loss -- Laboring against loss. |
| Summary |
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden ci. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lemuria.
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Lemuria. |
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Lost continents.
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Lost continents. |
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Tamil (Indic people)
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Tamil (Indic people) |
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Tamil (Indic people) -- India -- History.
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India. |
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History. |
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Tamil Nadu (India) -- Civilization.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Lost land of Lemuria. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520240324 0520244400 (DLC) 2003022825 (OCoLC)53289898 |
| ISBN |
9780520931855 (electronic book) |
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0520931858 (electronic book) |
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159734723X (electronic book) |
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9781597347235 (electronic book) |
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0520240324 |
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9780520240322 |
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0520244400 |
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9780520244405 |
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1282357697 |
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9781282357693 |
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