Objects, Images, Stories : Simon Digby's Historical Methods
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0190123966
ISBN-13
9780190123963
Publisher
OUP India
Imprint
OUP India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 16th, 2023
Print length
496 Pages
Weight
626 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 15.20 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
History: theory & methodsAsian history
Ksh 15,450.00
Werezi Extended Catalogue
Delivery in 28 days
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 28 days
Secure
Quality
Fast
What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales, imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and religious shifts? What range of sources is available to the historian of medieval and early modern India? How can textual sources illuminate material objects, sites, and practices, and vice versa? What historicalmethods do the different sources and material objects require?Drawing on the rich scholarship of Simon E. Digby (1932-2010) on South Asian medieval history and culture, the essays in this volume offer method lessons in a wide range of historical fields.
What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales, imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and religious shifts? What range of sources is available to the historian of medieval and early modern India? How can textual sources illuminate material objects, sites, and practices, and vice versa? What historicalmethods do the different sources and material objects require?Drawing on the rich scholarship of Simon E. Digby (1932-2010) on South Asian medieval history and culture, the essays in this volume offer method lessons in a wide range of historical fields.
Get Objects, Images, Stories by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by OUP India and it has pages.
