Description
Book SynopsisProbes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. This book combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography.
Trade Review“Modernity has defined itself against enchantment, yet continually produced new enchantments. Saurabh Dube helpfully establishes this pattern, and especially sheds light on the ways in which colonial and postcolonial power relationships are interwoven with spiritual meanings. He rightly and persuasively brings such apparently marginal actors as evangelical missionaries and native Indian Christians onto center stage, and he does so with grace, lucidity, and insight.”—Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council
“Saurabh Dube’s book will make a signal contribution to the political and theoretical legacy of South Asian subaltern studies. Based at the Colegio de México and in conversation with scholars and intellectuals based in Latin America, Dube has written a book that will enhance the dialogue between Latin American critical social thought and subaltern studies already underway. Historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated,
Stitches on Time conveys the feeling of a new gaze in the tradition of subaltern studies, an awareness of a daily life out of place in relation to the subject of scholarly pursuit.”—Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University
Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Colonial Textures 1 Traveling Light 31
2 Evangelical Entanglements 52
3 Telling Tales 76
4 Entitlements and Enmities 103
Postcolonial Tangles 5 Subaltern Subjects
129
6 Pilgrims’ Progress 164
7 The Enchanted and the Modern 177
Afterword 187
Notes
191
Glossary 231
Bibliography 233
Index 255
