The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai / Mary E. Hancock.
Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- 9780253352231
- 0253352231
- 1282103350
- 9781282103351
- 9786612103353
- 6612103353
- Collective memory -- India -- Chennai
- Cultural property -- India -- Chennai
- Chennai (India) -- Cultural policy
- Collective memory
- Cultural property
- Mémoire collective -- Inde -- Chennai
- Mémoire collective
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Collective memory
- Cultural policy
- Cultural property
- India -- Chennai
- 306.0954/82 22
- DS486.M2 H36 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.
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.
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.
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