Bengal in Global Concept History - Culturalism in the Age of Capital (Paperback)

Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Bengal to show how the concept can take on a life of its own in different contexts.
Sartori weaves the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept, from its origins in eighteenth-century Germany, through its adoption in England in the early 1800s, to its appearance in distinct local guises across the non-Western world. The impetus for the concept's dissemination was capitalism, Sartori argues, as its spread across the globe initiated the need to celebrate the local and the communal. Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not by slavish imitation of colonizing powers, but by the same problems that repeatedly followed the advance of modern capitalism. This remarkable interdisciplinary study will be of significant interest to historians and anthropologists, as well as scholars of South Asia and colonialism.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Andrew Sartori
Dimensions:	153 x 229 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-73494-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-226-73494-3
Barcode:	9780226734941

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