Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8223-6132-9 ; ISBN: 978-0-8223-6113-8. Contributors: D. Shyam Babu, Laura Brueck, Sambaiah Gundimeda, Gopal Guru, Rajkumar Hans, Chinnaiah Jangam, Surinder Jodhka, P. Sanal Mohan. The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been...
New Delhi etc: New Age International, 1998. — 255 p. Religion as Emancipatory Identity is a sociological study of a socio-religious movement among the Tamils during the colonial period. It investigates and brings to light for the first time the forgotten movement of Buddhist revivalism — the life and writings of Pandit lyothee Thass, the organisation and activities of Sakya/South...
New Delhi etc: Sage, 2003. Introduction: Reconstructing the World. The Background to Buddhism. The Dhamma: The Basic Teachings of Buddhism. Transitoriness and Transformations. Buddhist Civilisation. The Defeat of Buddhism in India. After Buddhism: The Bhakti Movements. Colonial Challenges, Indian Responses and Buddhist Revival. Navayana Buddhism and the Modern Age. About the...
New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2012 Understanding Caste approaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the...
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. This book is a hard-hitting sociological critique of India's nationalist historiography. The National Movement is also examined critically. Students of sociology, social anthropology, political science, and Indian history will take an interest in this volume. Introduction: Historical Sociology and the Study of Nation and Nationalism in...
New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2010. Identity as Congruence between Culture and Power Identity Formations in India Oru Paisa Tamizhan/Tamizhan Paraiyan versus Tamizhan Paraiah, Panchama & Depressed Classes Paraiyan versus Parppan Who is a Paraiah? Who is a Brahmin? Adi Tamizhar, Casteless Dravidians & Poorva Buddhists Identification: between the Universal & the Particular...
Москва : Наука, 1978. — 336 с. Предисловие - Р. А. Ульяновский Предпосылки возникновения коммунистического движения Индии. - Ф. Девяткина Возникновение коммунистических групп в Индии. - М. Н. Егорова Основание Коммунистической партии Индии. - А. М. Мельников Примечания Указатель имен
Саранск: Саранск, 2010. —-468 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7493-1479-3. Книга состоит из трех разделов. Первый раздел - исследование И. В. Клюевой «Степан Эрьзя в мыслительном контексте М. М. Бахтина». Второй раздел - исследование И. В. Клюевой и Л. М. Лисуновой «Личная библиотека М. М. Бахтина в культурном контексте эпохи» (с включением каталога библиотеки и аннотированного указателя имен...
Сборник научных статей. — Под редакцией С.Л. Богомаза, В.А. Каратерзи, С.Ф. Пашковича. — Витебск: ВГУ имени П.М. Машерова, 2018. — 306 с. — ISBN: 978-985-517-676-4. В сборнике представлен теоретико-методологический анализ исторического наследия М.М. Бахтина и его инновационных возможностей современной отечественной и зарубежной науки. В издании приведены результаты исследований...
Russian Literature, Volume 72, Issues 3–4, 1 October–15 November 2012. — P. 385–423. Zhirmunskii has generally been received either as a literary scholar or as a linguist, but the inner connection between the two aspects of his work has seldom been highlighted. This article examines the two sides of Zhirmunskiiʼs work in the context of his involvement in Soviet institutions of the...
Cahiers de l’ILSL, № 47, 2016, pp. 71-84. The work of R.O. Šor (1894-1939) is examined through materials held in the archives of institutions in which she worked. Particularly important is the text of her self-criticism of 1932 in which she examines the formation of her own ideas and the influences on her work. This is supplemented with reflections on her published work and new...
Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 63 Issue 1, 2011, pp.43-61. The life and career of the Soviet scholar of myth and religion Izrail' Grigor'evic Frank-Kamenetskij is discussed, tracing his development from a scholar working exclusively on semitology to a theorist of myth and literature. The scholar's relationship to German philosophy and Biblical scholarship is outlined,...
Knowledge Cultures 3(4), 2015. — P. 17–34. The emergence of “sociological poetics” in Leningrad is traced through a discussion of research projects developed at Institute for the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV). The development and revision of certain ideas of A.N. Veselovskii in the work of the Formalists and their opponents is...
Journal of Sociolinguistics. — 2003. — Volume 7. — Issue 2. — Pages: 135-231. The work of Lev Iakubinskii, Boris Larin and Viktor Zhirmunskii working at the Institute of Discursive Culture in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s deserves to be recognised as an early version of sociolinguistics. These thinkers combined dialect geography with Marxist sociological thought and...
From Riikka Alanen and Sari Pöyhönen (eds.) — Language in Action Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacy Today , pp.79-100. — Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. Contents: Introduction; Institutional Context; Common Sources; Gestalt Theory; History of Culture and Behaviour; Comclusion.
Russian Literature LXIII (2008) II/III/IV The Institute for the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV) was the locus of pathbreaking work in the fields of linguistic and literary studies. The history of the formation, development and closure of the institute is related along with discussion of the most important genetic and functional...
Studies in East European Thought , December 2015, Volume 67, Issue 3–4, pp 209–228. The intellectual biography of M. I. Tubjanskij [Тубянский, Tubianskii, Tubyansky] is considered, setting his work within the context of the Bakhtin Circle in the mid-1920s, but considering his wider engagement with the intellectual field of the time. Tubjanskij’s passage from studies of the work of...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. — 246 p. The ideas of the Bakhtin Circle have been widely applied within literary and cultural studies, but application is seldom combined with a critical appraisal of the ideas themselves. In this wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary volume, the intellectual heritage of the Circle is investigated and the adequacy of their ideas in relation to...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 286 p. The Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has traditionally been seen as the leading figure in the group of intellectuals known as the Bakhtin Circle. The writings of other members of the Circle are considered much less important than his work, while Bakhtin's achievement has been exaggerated in proportion to the...
Pluto, 2002. — 221 p. Mikhail Bakhtin and the group of thinkers known as the Bakhtin Circle have had a massive influence on contemporary literary and cultural theory. Bakhtin is recognised as perhaps the key theorist on the novel as a genre, and his writings on carnival in popular culture are a recurrent theme in cultural studies. The influence of the Circle has recently spread...