CHAPTER 7: Adda: A History of Sociality.

Autor: Chakrabarty, Dipesh
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Zdroj: Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought & Historical Difference; 2007, p180-213, 34p, 2 Illustrations
Abstrakt: Chapter 7 of the book "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought & Historical Difference," edited by Sherry B. Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks and Geoff Eley is presented. It explores the disappearance of the social practice adda in Calcutta, India where friends get together for long conversations. It highlights the debate of the Bengalis about adda wherein the acceptance of its marker status does not mean that the Bengali intellectuals have the same opinion on the social practice's value.
Databáze: Complementary Index