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Metallic modern : everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe

Author
Wickramasinghe, Nira
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (191 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Exploring Sri Lanka's Modern: Multiple Loops of Belonging; Chapter 1 -- Following the Singer Sewing Machine: Fashioning a Market in a British Crown Colony; Chapter 2 -- Creating a Market Imaginary; Chapter 3 -- Paths to a Buddhist Modern: From Siam to America; Chapter 4 -- The Gramophone: Soulful Sounds and Sacred Speeches; Chapter 5 -- An Asian Modern: Japan; Chapter 6 -- Trams, Cars, Bicycles: Modern Machines in the City; Chapter 7 -- A Tailor's Tale and Machines in the Home; Chapter 8 -- Working like Machines. and Conclusion -- Metallic ModernGlossary; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The 'metallic modern' of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic.
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ISBN
9781782382430 (electronic bk.)
1782382437 (electronic bk.)
9781306545945
1306545943
9781782382423 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1782382429 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.
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