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Metallic Modern - Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (Hardcover, New)
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Metallic Modern - Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (Hardcover, New)
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Total price: R2,679
Discovery Miles: 26 790
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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was
characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity
through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in
particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone,
tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The
'metallic modern' of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon
encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and
enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters
with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception
of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as
it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups - tailors,
seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers - and suggests that their idea
of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
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