Christiane Brosius: 2 books
India's Middle Class
New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India.
Rich in ethnographic...
Repetition, Recurrence, Returns
How Cultural Renewal Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals...