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- catalog abstract ""Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has become in our day a center for high-technology research and production, the new "Silicon Valley" of India, with a metropolitan population approaching six million. It is also the site of the very popular annual performance called the 'Karaga' dedicated to Draupadi, the polyandrous wife of the heroes of the pan-Indian epic of the Mahabharata. Through her analysis of this performance and its significance for the sense of the civic in Bangalore, Smitri Srinivas shows how constructions of locality and globality emerge from existing cultural milieus and how articulations of the urban are modes of cultural self-invention tied to historical, spatial, somatic, and ritual practices. The book hightlights cultural practices embedded in urbanization, and moves beyond economistic arguments about globalization or their reliance on the European polis or the American metropolis as models. Drawing from urban studies, sociology, anthropology, performance studies, religion, and history, Srinivas's work greatly expands our understanding of how the civic is constructed."--Book cover.".
- catalog alternative "Sacred and the civic in India's high-tech city".
- catalog contributor b12278139.
- catalog coverage "Bangalore (India)".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has become in our day a center for high-technology research and production, the new "Silicon Valley" of India, with a metropolitan population approaching six million. It is also the site of the very popular annual performance called the 'Karaga' dedicated to Draupadi, the polyandrous wife of the heroes of the pan-Indian epic of the Mahabharata. Through her analysis of this performance and its significance for the sense of the civic in Bangalore, Smitri Srinivas shows how constructions of locality and globality emerge from existing cultural milieus and how articulations of the urban are modes of cultural self-invention tied to historical, spatial, somatic, and ritual practices. The book hightlights cultural practices embedded in urbanization, and moves beyond economistic arguments about globalization or their reliance on the European polis or the American metropolis as models. Drawing from urban studies, sociology, anthropology, performance studies, religion, and history, Srinivas's work greatly expands our understanding of how the civic is constructed."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- 1. Civic Rituals in the New 'Silicon Valley' -- 2. Models of the Garden City -- 3. The Urban Performative Complex -- 4. The Children of Fire -- 5. The Primal Goddess, the Polyandrous Spouse, and Celibate Warriors -- 6. Cities and Forests -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 329 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081663615X (HC : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816636168 (PB : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Globalization and community ; v. 9".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "Bangalore (India)".
- catalog spatial "India Bangalore.".
- catalog subject "307.76/0954 21".
- catalog subject "HC440.H53 S65 2001".
- catalog subject "High technology industries India Bangalore.".
- catalog subject "Hinduism Social aspects India Bangalore.".
- catalog subject "Urban beautification India Bangalore.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- 1. Civic Rituals in the New 'Silicon Valley' -- 2. Models of the Garden City -- 3. The Urban Performative Complex -- 4. The Children of Fire -- 5. The Primal Goddess, the Polyandrous Spouse, and Celibate Warriors -- 6. Cities and Forests -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Landscapes of urban memory : the sacred and the civic in India's high-tech city / Smriti Srinivas.".
- catalog title "Sacred and the civic in India's high-tech city".
- catalog type "text".