{"product_id":"protestant-textuality-and-the-tamil-modern-political-oratory-and-the-social-imaginary-in-south-asia-paperback","title":"Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard Bate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eE. Annamalai\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrancis Cody\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. \u003ci\u003eProtestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern\u003c\/i\u003e examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Bate\u003c\/b\u003e was Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College. A linguistic anthropologist who specialized in the Tamil language, his first book is \u003ci\u003eTamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). \u003cb\u003eE. Annamalai\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Professor of Tamil at the University of Chicago. \u003cb\u003eFrancis Cody\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in Anthropology and in the Asian Institute, both at the University of Toronto. \u003cb\u003eMalarvizhi Jayanth\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of colonial South Asia pursuing her doctorate at the University of Chicago. \u003cb\u003eConstantine V. Nakassis\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788679971104,"sku":"9781503628656","price":42.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a5f1fc070f10e23d68af1fa00c7acc65.webp?v=1780657231","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/protestant-textuality-and-the-tamil-modern-political-oratory-and-the-social-imaginary-in-south-asia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}