TY - BOOK AU - Bel, Bernard, ed. AU - Brouwer, Jan, ed. AU - Das, Biswajit, ed. AU - Parthasarathi, Vibodh, ed. AU - Poitevin, Guy, ed. TI - Communication, culture and confrontation SN - 9788132102274 U1 - 302.20954 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - Communication--Social aspects KW - Communication and culture N1 - Introduction: Remoulding the 'cultural' as the 'contentious' / Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin -- I: Conflicting stakes / Introduction editors -- From the popular to the people / Guy Poitevin -- Intervention tendencies in popular culture / Vibodh Parthasarathi -- The Indian legal system : a unique combination of traditions, practices and modern values / Karine Bates -- II: Power or orality / Introduction editors -- Terrains of rejuvenation -- The donkey : a mirror of self-identification / Guy Poitevin -- Memory and social protest / Badri Narayan -- Say it in singing! Prosodic patterns and rhetorics in the performance of grindmill songs / Bernard Bel, Genevìeve Caelen-Haumont and Hema Rairkar -- Assets of dissent -- Grindmill songs : a reference of autonomous self-insight / Hema Rairkar -- From grindmill songs to cultural action / Tara Ubhe -- A reactivated performance capacity / Kusum Sonavne -- III: Contours of creativity / Introduction editors -- Scenarios of stress -- Folk arts and folk artists : myths and realities / PJ Amala Dos -- Scenarios of appropriation -- Resisting colonial modernity / Premchand's Rangabhoomi and Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay -- Street theatre in Maharashtra / Hema Rairkar -- Action theatre in Belgium / Paul Biot -- IV: Contestations in public spaces / Introduction editors -- Intruding orders -- Ephemera, communication and the quest for power : Hindutva in Uttar Pradesh / Jayati Chaturvedi and Gyaneshwar Chaturvedi -- The ritual management of desire in Indian bazaar art / Kajri Jain -- Contending idioms -- On the way to Pandhari / Jitendra Maid and Guy Poitevin -- The famous invincible darkies / Denis-Constant Martin -- Epilogue / editors ER -