2023

Review by Trishna Mani Thakuria __0__
India through Hindu Categories
by McKim Marriott (ed.)
New Delhi: Sage
1990. Xvi+209 pp. Plates, Maps, References, Errata, Index. Rs. 450 (hardback)
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This book is an ambitious attempt in the form of collective effort of academic intellectuals to understand social behaviour of people from cultural categories, splitting out from the bias of general social science which analyses social behaviour and configuration under certain fixed (…)

Reviewed by Katharina Steiner (University of Geneva)
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Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms by Michel Anctil
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
2018. 488 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-5312-5
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With his book on the history and science of light production in living animals, Michel Anctil offers a rich history of a phenomenon that has triggered not only superstition, optical illusions, and imaginative worlds but also the (…)