Knowledge and power: a discourse for transformation

Mani, Braj Ranjan

ISBN: 9789350980309, 9350980304

The volume probes the politics and duality of the intellectual world in which an elite has appropriated knowledge, much like power and wealth. Bringing to light the hidden agenda and hidden curriculum, it uncovers the dominant canons and constructs that distort the vision for a more humane world.

The Konyaks: last of the tattooed headhunters, photographs by Peter Bos, forewords by William Dalrymple and Peter van Ham

Konyak, Phejin

ISBN: 9789351941125, 9351941124

This book captures the unique but vanishing practice of the tattooing culture, together with the tattoo patterns, their meanings and oral traditions, such as folktales, songs, poems and sayings. It presents an overall view of the Konyak people, their society, way of life and the culture in detail. The Konyaks, were a fearsome headhunting tribe of Nagaland.

Kumar Shahani: the shock of desire and other essays, ed. & intro. by Ashish Rajadhyaksha

ISBN: 9789382381617, 9382381619

The fifty-one essays compiled in this book were written over a forty-year period by India's leading independent filmmaker. They provide new insights into a turbulent era in modern India's cultural history. In these essays Shahani addresses diverse political issues, aesthetic practice, questions of artistic freedom and censorship.

Lambaada: the unique cultural heritage

Pathloth, Vijayapal

ISBN: 9789385161759, 938516175X

This book tries to bring out the unique features of the rich cultural heritage of the Lambaada tribes to promote and propagate it across the globe. It highlights on the origin of these tribes from Ghor province in Afghanistan to the state of Rajasthan in India and from these to other parts of the country.

Leisure and tourism: cultural Paradigms

Dodd, John et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9788131604342, 8131604349

Little traditions in a culturally pluralistic nation, ed. by Amitabha Sarkar et al

ISBN: 9789385161865, 9385161865

The living religious and cultural traditions of Bhutan: catalogue

ISBN: 9788185832166, 8185832161

Locating cultural change: theory, method, process

Basu, Partha Pratim et al (ed.):

ISBN: 9788132105763, 8132105761

The book seeks to capture the vibrancy of cultural processes through a wide range of things that are a part of daily life spanning Hindi films, vernacular press, metropolitan club culture, the translation industry in India, medical advertisements and prime-time television serials.

Maa-mother

Kogata, R.N. et al.

ISBN: 9788124604571, 8124604576

Mother is equally revered in all cultures throughout the world. Indian epics, Puranas, Upanishads, etc. all extol the highest importance of a mother in society. The Kogatas have seen Goddess Parvati as the universal mother and have beautified this book with pleasing illustrations of her and Shiva in different moods and verses.

Marg: a magazine of the arts, Vol. 69, No.4, June-September 2018, The Draw of the Hills, ed. by Jyotindra Jain et al

In most earlier works and writings, this region has been cast as an exotic and mysterious hidden land. This issue of Marg interrogates the manner in which places are constructed by the perceptions of outsiders as well as self-imaging by locals for political and economic ends. These essays here highlight the processes that inform the making of tradition, ritual, material culture and regional her...

Marrying in South Asia: shifting concepts, changing practices in a globalising world

Kaur, Ravinder et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125053552, 8125053557

This book examines processes that make a marriage, the implications of non-marriage or its end and the acknowledgement of multiple sexualities, as well as the contestations and conflicts, including in the law courts, that are part of the institution.

Masculinity, asceticism, Hinduism: past and present imaginings of India

Chakraborty, Chandrima

ISBN: 9788178242989, 8178242982

This book analyses the links between religion, masculinity, and asceticism in Indian political and cultural history. The author reveals through an examination of nationalist discourse how ideas about masculinity and Hindu asceticism came to be reworked for cultural and political purposes.

Massacres of Tamils: 1956-2008

ISBN: 9788190973700, 8190973703

Maya healers: a thousand dreams, photographs and writings by Fran Antmann, preface by Carolina Escobar Sarti, afterword by Jean Franco

ISBN: 9788182500631, 818250063X

In this book, the author's lyrical writing and photographs illuminate a part of life that is central to the Maya culture. The author accompanied the natural healers of San Pedro, a village on Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands, as they treated patients for a wide range of maladies. The healers of Guatemala are deeply involved with the natural and spiritual worlds.

Media, communication, culture: a global approach, 2nd ed.

Lull, James

ISBN: 9788131606094, 8131606090

This book offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization.;The author draws from a wide range of social and cultural theory, including the works of famous authors, to formulate a well balanced and highly original account of key contemporary developments worldwide.

Medical anthropology: tradition and change, ed. by B.V. Sharma

ISBN: 9789351252528, 9351252523

Mizos of North-east India: an introduction to Mizo culture, folklore, language and literature

Khiangte, Laltluangliana

Modern Mizoram: history, culture, poetics

Thirumal, P. et al.

ISBN: 9780367137625, 0367137623

Studies in ancient Tamil law and society

Nagaswamy, R.

The present anthology is a revised edition of the author's 1978 classic. This series of essays, containing original research in various fields, throws light on the socio-cultural landspace of Tamil Nadu spanning several centuries.

The Moravian Brethren and Himalayan cultures: evangelisation, society, industry

Beszterda, Rafal

ISBN: 9788121512787, 8121512786

Based on materials collected over a period of 11 years (1996-2006), this work primarily concerns about Himalayan cultures and also about the traces of the missionaries' presence, the author came across while researching.