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Course
: Culture and the Disciplines
Semester:
IV
Code
: MEL 433
Total No of Hours:
60
Objectives
•
To attempt a cultural studies critique of the disciplines
•
To provide students with the opportunity to develop and critically apply their knowledge and understanding of theoretical and critical debates in CulturalStudies, as well as of key historical developments in intellectual debates
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To help students develop a range of skills in independent research, and criticalanalysis.
Level of Knowledge
: Working knowledge of theory and disciplines
 Literary Studies and Cultural Studies
6 Hrs
Gauri Viswanathan: 'Introduction’,
Masks of Conquest 
Culture and Philosophy
6 Hrs
Jacques Derrida: ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourses of Human Sciences’Gayathri Chakravarthy Spivak: 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'
Culture and History
6 Hrs
Dipesh Chakrabarty: 'Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History'Dipesh Chakrabarty: 'Epilogue: Reason and the Critique of Historicism'Henry Schwarz: ‘Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode'
Culture and Economics
6 Hrs
Lakshmi Subramanian: 'Banias and the British: The Role of Indigenous Credit in theProcess of Imperial Expansion in Western India in the Second Half of theEighteenth Century'Michelguglielmo Torri: ‘Trapped Inside the Colonial Order: The Hindu Bankers of Suratand their Business World during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century'Rajat Kanta Ray: 'Asian Capital in the Age of European Domination: The Rise of theBazaar, 1800-1914'
Culture and Sociology and Anthropology
6 Hrs
Clifford Geertz: 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture'James Clifford: 'On Ethnographic Authority'
Culture and Political Science
6 Hrs
Rajni Kothari: ‘Caste in Indian Politics: Introduction’Rajni Kothari: ‘The Grassroots Phenomenon: In Search of a Humane India’G. Ram Reddy; G. Haragopal: The Pyraveekar: ‘’The Fixer’ in Rural India’
 
Culture and Law 
6 Hrs
Veena Das: ‘The Figure of the Abducted Woman - The Citizen as Sexed’Judith Butler:‘Unwritten Laws and Aberrant Transmissions’
Culture and Psychoanalysis
6 Hrs
Sudhir Kakar: ‘Culture in Psychoanalysis’Sudhir Kakar: ‘Clinical Work and Cultural Imagination’Jonathan Lear: 'Knowingness and Abandonment: An Oedipus for Our Time'Jeffrey J Kripal: 'Psychoanalysis and Hinduism: Thinking Through Each Other'
Culture and Education
6 Hrs
Tejaswini Niranjana. ‘Higher Education’ (Extract)
Culture and Film and Visual Studies
6 Hrs
Veena Das: 'The Mythological Film and its Framework of Meaning: An Analysis of JaiSanthoshi Maa.'Geeta Kapur: 'Mythic Material in Indian Cinema'Christopher Pinney: 'Introduction: The Possibility of a Visual History'Christopher Pinney: 'The Politics of Popular Images: From Cow Protection to M.K.Gandhi, 1890-1950'
Bibliography
Balagangadhara, S.N. “Comparative Anthropology and Action Sciences -An Essay onKnowing to Act and Acting to Know”
 Philosophica
. (1987) 40 (2)Banks, Marcus, et al. ed.
 Rethinking Visual Anthropology
. London: Yale University Press1997Clifford Geertz:
The Interpretation Of Cultures
. New York: Basic Books, 2000.Davidson, Donald.
“
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme” in Proceedings
and  Addresses of the American Philosophical Association
, Vol. 47.During, Simon.
The Cultural Studies Reader 
. 2
nd
ed. London: Routledge, 1999.Hartmann, Wolfran, et al. ed.
The Colonising Camera: Photographs in the Making of  Namibian History.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998James Clifford: “On Ethnographic Authority”
 Representations
, No. 2. (Spring, 1983), pp.118-146.Kakar, Sudhir.
Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays
. New Delhi OUP, 1997 (46-59p)Kripal, Jeffrey J.
Vishnu on Freud’s Desk: Psychoanalysis and Hinduism
. New DelhiOUP, 1999Lear, Jonathan.
Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul 
. Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press 1998. Nayar, Pramod K.
 An Introduction to Cultural Studies
. New Delhi: Viva Books, 2008 Nelson, Cary, and Lawrence Grossberg.
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
edited by Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988 Niranjana, Tejaswini and Vivek Dhareshwar (ed).
 Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India
. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1993Ravi Vasudevan: “Shifting Codes/ Dissolving Identities: The Hindi Social Film of the1950s as Popular Culture”
 Journal of Arts & Ideas
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