Bureaucratic Archaeology : State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India Hardback
by Ashish (University of Rhode Island) Avikunthak
Part of the South Asia in the Social Sciences series
Hardback
Description
Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India.
This book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside.
It meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge.
This is the first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/02/2022
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- ISBN:9781316512395
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:358 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/02/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781316512395
