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Carol Breckenridge

Anthropology

#2219

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#2845

Historical Rank

#846

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Carol Breckenridge's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Carol A. Breckenridge was an American anthropologist and associate professor of history at the New School for Social Research, author of many books and articles on colonialism and the political economy of ritual; state, polity, and religion in South India; society and aesthetics in India since 1850; culture theory; and cosmopolitan cultural forms. In 1988 Breckenridge and fellow founding editor Arjun Appadurai started Public Culture, a field-defining academic journal in the areas of globalization and transnational cultural studies.

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Carol Breckenridge's Published Works

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Why Public Culture (1988) (229)
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (1993) (196)
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament (1993) (165)
Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World (1995) (159)
The Aesthetics and Politics of Colonial Collecting: India at World Fairs (1989) (153)
The south Indian temple: authority, honour and redistribution (1976) (150)
Public Modernity in India (2016) (87)
The Critical Limits of Embodiment: Disability's Criticism (2001) (81)
From Protector to Litigant— Changing Relations Between Hindu Temples and the Raja of Ramnad (1977) (27)
Editorial Comment: On Thinking the Black Public Sphere (1994) (11)
Museums are Good to Think (2017) (9)
The critical limits of embodiment : reflections on disability criticism (2001) (8)
The Śrī Mīn̲ākṣi Sundarēṣvarar Temple : worship and endowments in South India, 1833 to 1925 (1977) (6)
Editorial Comment: On Theory's Empire (1993) (5)
From the Field (2000) (0)
From the Field (2011) (0)
From Empiricist Conflation to Distortion: Caste in South Asia (1985) (0)
Back Matter (1997) (0)
Back Matter (1997) (0)
Back Matter (1993) (0)
Twenty Days into the War (1991) (0)
Religion Under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India . By Franklin A. Presler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x, 179 pp. $39.50. (1990) (0)
Aquinas, St. Thomas. Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. Ed. Anton C. Pegis. New York: Modem Library. 1945 Arac, Jonathan. Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies-New York: Columbia UP, 1987 Arendt, Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism. Cleveland: World Publishin (1995) (0)
Editor's Note (2000) (0)
In Honor of D. R. Nagaraj (2000) (0)
Editor's Note (2000) (0)

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