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oapen-20.500.12657-504742021-08-20T02:43:22Z Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern Bate, Bernard Annamalai, E. Cody, Francis Jayanth, Malarvizhi Nakassis, Constantine V. Social and cultural anthropology Asian history Social and cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern 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. 2021-08-19T08:51:00Z 2021-08-19T08:51:00Z 2021 book ONIX_20210819_9781503628663_8 9781503628663 9781503628656 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50474 eng South Asia in Motion application/pdf application/epub+zip n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781503628663.pdf 9781503628663.epub Stanford University Press 10.21627/9781503628663 10.21627/9781503628663 6b2b1871-a4f5-4d52-b611-31fc51dbcdce 9781503628663 9781503628656 264 open access
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Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern 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.
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