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  • Crafting the nation in colonial India[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 306.4/70954
    杜威分類號: 745.09
    書名/作者: Crafting the nation in colonial India/ Abigail McGowan.
    作者: McGowan, Abigail.
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xiii, 265 p. : : ill. ;; 22 cm.
    標題: Decorative arts - India.
    標題: Industries, Primitive - India.
    標題: Cultural awareness - India.
    標題: India - Congresses. - Foreign economic relations - United States
    ISBN: 9780230623231
    ISBN: 0230623239
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Demanding knowledge, documenting the body -- The culture of difference : from colonial knowledge to the problem with crafts -- Developing traditions : preservationist design and the independentartisan -- Modernizing artisanship : rationalization, efficiency and the cult of the craftsman -- Conclusion : the long life of difference : Gandhi and the politics of crafts after 1920.
    摘要、提要註: "Well before Gandhi popularized hand-spun, hand-woven cloth, Britishand Indian activists had made crafts central to plans for India's economic and cultural revival.  Combining tradition and employment at a time of industrial transition, crafts appealed to both government officials and nationalist activists alike - even as they bemoaned artisansas conservative and backwards.  That connection between development and cultural judgment was not incidental. Drawing on a wide range ofcraft development initiatives in western India between 1851 and 1922 -from art and industrial schoolsto model factories, pattern books, exhibitions, technical experiments, and cooperatives - McGowan argues thatcrafts came to political prominence through British and Indian negotiations over power: power over the lower classes, over the economy, and over the future of the country.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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