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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520244400
ISBN-139780520244405
eBay Product ID (ePID)30871978
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameLost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAncient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge, Ancient / General, Earth Sciences / Geography, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Asia / General
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Body, Mind & Spirit, Science, History
AuthorSumathi Ramaswamy
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-022825
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsRamaswamy's work is intellectually sophisticated, elegant, and rich. . . . A remarkable work and a major contribution to intellectual and cultural history.
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal001.94
SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery-and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day., During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery--and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.
LC Classification Number2003022825
