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020			_a978-9383184750
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100			_aKhanwalkar, Seema
245			_aApplied semiotic tools for the Indian cultural context
260			_aAhmedabad: _bCEPT University Press, _c2023.
300			_axix, 339 p. _back. _c22 cm x 16 cm
500			_aRecommended By: Ujjwal Garg ------------------------------------------
521			_aList of Tables and Figures vii Introduction viii Performative Cultures 20 01 Can the Centre Hold? Play and Tensions in Oral Cultural Narratives of Goa 22 02 When Is a Coconut Not a Coconut? Using Semiotics to Harness Culture in India 42 03 Television Narratives: Creating a Cultural Complicity - A Semiotic Analysis of the Balaji Telefilms Discourse 56 04 Literacy in the 'Visual World': Impact of the SLS Experiment in Rural India 80 05 Ethnoconsumerism and Cultural Branding: Designing 'Nano' Car 94 06 Contemporary Indian Art and the 'Semiotic Eye': Issues And Perspectives 118 Notions of Space and Geography 136 07 The Sabarmati Story: Memory of Water and Notions of Place 138 08 Designed Environments, Mimesis, and Likeness: Exploring Human-Material Ecologies 152 09 Architecture and Design Semiotics in the Light of Transformative Futures 176 10 Discovering the Abandoned and the Living: A Material-Semiotic Reading of Textile Mills in Ahmedabad 202 Digital Futures 216 11 Humanities in the Digital World/Digital in the Humanities? 218 12 Enchanted Object Indian Sari, Negotiating the Online and the Offline Space 238 Discourses of Identity, Modernity, and Nationalism 266 13 Semiotic Challenges in India 268 14 Branding National Issues: India and the Branding Bandwagon 290 15 Insisting Modernity Exploring Objects of Modernity in the Optimism and Practice in Mulk Raj Anand's Life 300 Epilogue 324 Acknowledgements 334 About the Author 339
650			_xIndian Culture
650			_xShawls
650			_xFolk art
650			_xKerchiefs
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