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L'invention du vêtement national au Sri Lanka: habiller le corps colonisé, par Nira Wickramasinghe
No full textPrésentation de l'éditeur L'habillement est un produit social. Si dans toutes les cultures, hommes et femmes montrent une immense créativité à parer leur corps de vêtements et de bijoux, cela est encore plus vrai pour les cultures non occidentales. Le corps devient ainsi le porteur de signes culturels. La parure est un mode de communication non verbale, un système de significations. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur, Nira Wickramasinghe, étudie tout particulièrement les significations politiques, éc..
L'invention du vêtement national au Sri Lanka: habiller le corps colonisé, par Nira Wickramasinghe
No full textPrésentation de l'éditeur L'habillement est un produit social. Si dans toutes les cultures, hommes et femmes montrent une immense créativité à parer leur corps de vêtements et de bijoux, cela est encore plus vrai pour les cultures non occidentales. Le corps devient ainsi le porteur de signes culturels. La parure est un mode de communication non verbale, un système de significations. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur, Nira Wickramasinghe, étudie tout particulièrement les significations politiques, éc..
Minor archives, meta histories. GLASS Faculty Roundtable
Full text linkA round table on minor histories, or minority histories, or "subaltern pasts", with Dipesh Chakrabarty (History, Chicago), Nira Wickramasinghe (LIAS - Modern South Asia, Leiden), Ksenia Robbe (LUCAS - Literary Studies, Leiden), Wayne Modest (Research Centre for Material Culture), moderated by Ethan Mark (LIAS - Japan Studies, Leiden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Fashioning a Market
No full textThis chapter examines the role of the Singer sewing machine in fashioning a consumer market in colonial Lanka, now known as Sri Lanka. More specifically, it narrates the fashioning of a market imaginary, which indexed modernity as desire installed through the Singer machine. The chapter first provides an overview of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and the market for sewing machines before discussing the company's global expansion. It then considers the Asian market for the Singer sewing machine and the Singer Company's venture in Ceylon/Lanka. It also analyzes the diffusion of the Singer sewing machine in Lanka and the marketing strategies used by Singer in the country. Finally, it explores how the Singer sewing machine intersected with the issue of race and the civilizing mission and how the market imaginary was exposed in circuits of communication such as advertisements, discourses of Sinhalese modern nationalism, and the economy of the machines itself.</p
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