From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Tue Apr  4 09:02:57 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:02:57 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] Tomorrow
Message-ID: <44326E81.20102@mit.edu>

Dear All:

We will meet tomorrow Wednesday 29 March in MIT Building E-51 Room 393 to discuss the texts listed below. We will begin with an oral presentation by Nikhil Rao and continue with discussion of the texts on urban form, spatial practice and the image of the "public".
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (1960). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/lynch_ch1-5.pdf
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/lynch_appendices.pdf

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen's Gaze" in Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp.65-79.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chakrabarty.pdf

Sudipta Kaviraj, "Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta," Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kaviraj.pdf

See the full list for 29 March on:

http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Schedule_of_Meetings#29_March_2006:_Urban_Form

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Best,



S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
Apt.302, Edgerton House
143, Albany Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.

http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar


From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Thu Apr  6 01:16:44 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:16:44 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] [Fwd: Fwd: bangalore diss]
Message-ID: <4434A43C.1020800@mit.edu>



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Subject: Fwd: bangalore diss
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:41:53 -0400
From: eric lewis beverley <beverley at fas.harvard.edu>
To: Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at mit.edu>, Nikhil Rao <nrao at wellesley.edu>
CC: mfischer at mit.edu
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> From: ProQuest <noreply at il.proquest.com>
> Date: April 5, 2006 9:02:08 PM EDT
> To: beverley at fas.harvard.edu
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>
> 'Divine enterprise': An ethnographic study of popular Hinduism
> Srinivas, Tulasi.  Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2001.  390  
> pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Massachusetts: Boston  
> University; 2001. Publication Number: AAT 3002613.
> Advisor:	Berger, Peter
> School:	Boston University
> School Location:	United States -- Massachusetts
> Index terms(keywords):	Hinduism, India, Modernity, Priests, Caste
> Source:	DAI-A 62/01, p. 227, Jul 2001
> Source type:	DISSERTATION
> Subjects:	Cultural anthropology, Sociology, Religion
> Publication Number:	AAT 3002613
> ISBN:	0493113258
> Document URL:	http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb? 
> did=728446131&Fmt=2&clientId=11201&RQT=309&VName=PQD
> ProQuest document ID:	728446131
>
> Abstract (Document Summary)
> This is a study of 'popular' Hinduism as it is practiced in the  
> public space of urban Hindu temples in the city of Bangalore in  
> South India. The literature on Hinduism assumes that Hindu priests  
> are the curators of an unchanging tradition, and that they oppose  
> change brought about by forces of modernity. Contrary to these  
> understandings of the priesthood, the study shows that the priests  
> in particular Hindu temples of Bangalore city, are at the forefront  
> of inventing strategies that transform Hinduism from within, and  
> they reinvent and reinterpret Hinduism on a daily basis. Therefore  
> this study is an attempt to understand this disparity between the  
> reality of the field, and the constructed image of the priesthood.
>
> The study also addresses the forces that shape and change religion,  
> and the implications of this reconstitution of religion for our  
> understanding of modernity and globalisation. The study highlights  
> the transformation in the social world of the Hindu temple, teasing  
> out a new perspective on the changing nature of class and status in  
> contemporary India, and linking it to concepts of entrepreneurship,  
> competition, recruitment, status, social mobility, and culture.
>
> The study examines the four actors in the temple--the priests, the  
> devotees, the deity and the Government and their relationships with  
> one another. This is an argument of everyday interaction as being  
> transformative, as being the site where the re-workings of society  
> happen. The study demonstrates how 'tradition' and 'modernity' are  
> not oppositional categories for the actors in the temples but are  
> used fluidly as constitutive elements of strategies to redefine  
> Hinduism.
>
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-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
Apt.302, Edgerton House
143, Albany Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.

http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar