With Calcutta as the hub, eastern India was the gateway of technology transmission to India. This book explores the social history of this transmission, from the colonial metropolis to the interior, and analyses the context and results of technology induction to the villages. Ba…
On a weaver community of Bārā Banki District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing. This unrivaled critical introduction examines the causes and consequences of major social and economic transformations affecting rur…
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational respon…
Das Dorf boomt - die Dörfer sterben. Während die Welt des Dorfes durch globale und regionale Strukturveränderungen zu verschwinden droht, lebt sie gegenwärtig in Literatur, Film und Populärkultur wieder auf. Den verschiedenen Gestaltungsweisen "imaginärer Dörfer"--Von der Idylle…
Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit: Roman
by García Márquez, Gabriel, García Márquez, Gabriel
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